USA Today wrote, "It could be a frustrating book for readers who require propulsive plots and clean resolutions, as it offers neither. The purpose of these stories is not to unite a community around a tragedy as a less daring and more conventional narrative would have it, but to expose the ways in which the women of Kamchatka are fragmented personally, culturally and emotionally not only by the crime that jump-starts the novel, but by place, identity and the people who try, and often fail, to understand them." The New York Times Book Review described the book as a "superb debut.a novel in the form of overlapping short stories about the women who are affected both directly and indirectly by the kidnapping. The literary review aggregator Book Marks reported that 75% of critics gave the novel a "rave" review and 25% gave it a "positive" review, based on a sample of 20 book reviews. In an isolated town in Far Eastern part of Russia two young girls go missing. Disappearing Earth is the 2019 debut novel by Julia Phillips.
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