![]() ![]() 24)Ĭharred wood, rich sulfur, and cold earth: the smells of nostalgia. In one minute she was lovely and in the next she was a ghost. Her eyelashes had faded from startling white to transparency. It is truly a great book.ĭiana was still pale blond and oval-faced, and her mouth was red, bright red, exciting like the lacquer of a new car, but she had a belt of acne across her cheeks. ![]() ![]() The great thing about this book is that the narrative holds together, the perspectives are all individualized and compelling, the writing is consistently good, and we are driven page after page in the quest of the fate of the girls. I truly enjoyed this book cover to cover and feel it is a strong contender for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Įach chapter in the book follows a different person whose life intersects that of the missing girls during one of the twelve months since the girls go missing. Filled will interesting characters, cultural tidbits (the author has apparently spent lots of time there on Fulbright grants and the like), and the writing is quite good. ![]() Julia Phillips takes us to the heart of a kidnapping of two young girls on this isolated peninsula and describes the aftermath in the various communities during the year afterwards. This was an excellent novel about Kamchatka, an area in Siberia which many of us only know as a coveted piece of land in the game Risk. ![]()
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