DISAPPEARING EARTH

The kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion a propulsive, evocative, searingly original debut n ovel by a dazzling young writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka Peninsula at the northeastern tip of Russia , two girlssisters, ages eight and elevengo missing. The police investigation goes cold from the outset. In the girls tightly-wov en community, everyone must grapple with the loss. But the fear and danger is felt most profoundly among the women of this isolated place.