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Violence
Some
A kidnapping and its implied violence; some danger and threat
Language
Barely any
Mild language throughout
Sexual Content
Barely any
Adult relationships referenced; nothing explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate social drinking among characters
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Grief and the failure of institutions to care equally, Indigenous women made invisible by investigators, the weight of a disappearance on a community
What this book is about
On the remote Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East, two young sisters are abducted and never found. The novel moves through the following year, chapter by chapter, following different women in the region — a grieving mother, a teacher, a scientist, an Indigenous woman ignored by investigators — each connected by the disappearance in ways both direct and oblique. Julia Phillips's debut is a meditation on what violence does to a place, and on which losses a society chooses to mourn.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
child abduction as inciting event
examination of racial disparities in missing persons cases
slow-burn psychological dread
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