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To me DISAPPEARING EARTH touches upon many real-life issues: the racism that hovers below the ssurface. For example, workers from Central Asia can be categorizedd as "suspicious," the witness who saw the man take the girls said he was "ordinary" because he looked white,, the police who were likely Russian, apparently did little to find Lilia because she was from an indigenous family, Behind everything is the pervasive misogyny that guides men's actions towards women. Given its geographical situation on the map, Kamchatka is a poster child for isolation. "Isola" is the Italian word for island. Some of the female characters attribute this to their own sense of disconnectedness, while others have come to the correct conclusion that we can feel isolated even in apparently happy marriages or within group dynamics. This gives the lie to John Donne's assertion that "No man is an island." In the final analysiis, we are all islands. This is an extraordinary book that I shall continue to think about for many years to come. Thank you Julia Phillips.
I shall review it when I have doe some more thinking......
Is there anything like "men's or women's literature? Yes, Julia Phillips writes about a bunch of female characters and yes, as a man, I learned a lot about those women and the way they think, feel and act. But others will almost read it as a thriller, which it defintely isn't. The perception is always our own. This novel has a unique women's voice, that's for sure.
Ha! I didn't realize it was categorized as "Women's Fiction." As a man who read the book, I loved it. I think it would fit better under Literary Fiction though ;-)
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To me DISAPPEARING EARTH touches upon many real-life issues: the racism that hovers below the ssurface. For example, workers from Central Asia can be categorizedd as "suspicious," the witness who saw the man take the girls said he was "ordinary" because he looked white,, the police who were likely Russian, apparently did little to find Lilia because she was from an indigenous family, Behind everything is the pervasive misogyny that guides men's actions towards women. Given its geographical situation on the map, Kamchatka is a poster child for isolation. "Isola" is the Italian word for island. Some of the female characters attribute this to their own sense of disconnectedness, while others have come to the correct conclusion that we can feel isolated even in apparently happy marriages or within group dynamics. This gives the lie to John Donne's assertion that "No man is an island." In the final analysiis, we are all islands. This is an extraordinary book that I shall continue to think about for many years to come. Thank you Julia Phillips.
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I shall review it when I have doe some more thinking......
Is there anything like "men's or women's literature? Yes, Julia Phillips writes about a bunch of female characters and yes, as a man, I learned a lot about those women and the way they think, feel and act. But others will almost read it as a thriller, which it defintely isn't. The perception is always our own. This novel has a unique women's voice, that's for sure.
Ha! I didn't realize it was categorized as "Women's Fiction." As a man who read the book, I loved it. I think it would fit better under Literary Fiction though ;-)
