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"Disappearing Earth"

with Author Julia Phillips

2019-09-21 14:00:00 2019-09-21 15:00:00 America/New_York "Disappearing Earth" Evoking the Kamchatka Peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, a fascinating region on the other side of the world, this suspenseful story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. Manville branch - Community Room

Saturday, September 21
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2019-09-21 14:00:00 2019-09-21 15:00:00 America/New_York "Disappearing Earth" Evoking the Kamchatka Peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, a fascinating region on the other side of the world, this suspenseful story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. Manville branch - Community Room

Manville branch

Community Room

Evoking the Kamchatka Peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, a fascinating region on the other side of the world, this suspenseful story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer.

Julia Phillips is a Fulbright fellow whose writing has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Atlantic, Slate, and The Moscow Times. She lives in Brooklyn.

Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, "Disappearing Earth" enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by a crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty–densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska–and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. 

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Reading & Writing | Lecture | Book Discussion |

TAGS: | #DisappearingEarth |

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