![]() ![]() ![]() This book was a beautiful exercise in humanity. Their dreams and aspirations often turn to nothing, and my heart broke so many times, even for characters I didn’t particularly like. Each character has a rich inner life, and is haunted by loss, uncertainty, societal pressure, judgment, by lack of options in such a remote place. The author did such a great job in turning a narrator in one story seamlessly into a secondary character in another’s a few chapters later. ![]() We get several different point of views and explore the motivations, fears, nostalgia, disillusion and loss of these people, who are connected to the kidnapping in one way or another, sometimes only very loosely.Įach chapter focuses on a different character, and this makes Disappearing Earth very much a slow burn, as we see month by month a snapshot of their lives. Although the blurb might imply this is a series of events started by the kidnapping of two sisters, this is less a plot-driven book and more about each of the characters. Disappearing Earth was another book chosen for the Squad Longlist, and I was very excited to read this slow-burn mystery set in Siberia. ![]()
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