A daily journal of our lives (begun in October 2010), in photos (many taken by my wife, Evie) and words, mostly from our home on Chautauqua Lake, in Western New York, where my wife Evie and I live, after my having retired from teaching English for forty-five years in Hawaii, Turkey, and Ohio. We have three children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandson, as you will notice if you follow my blog since we often travel to visit them. Photo from our porch taken on 11/03/2024 at 7:07 AM
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
DISPPEARING EARTH: JULIA PHILLIPS
Set in the Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth takes us to world unfamiliar to most of us, a land of mountains, glaciers, a complex of social and ethnic tensions, between the Russian and indigenous cultures. The story revolves around the kidnapping of two young girls, its effect on numerous families and individuals, all of whom have some relationship with the girls. The novel is, then, a series of individual but related stories, inviting us into the lives of this very different world in Russia, of different cultures. It's a great read, interesting and compelling. It was one of the New York Times Best Ten Books of 2019.
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