#FDL: Book Giveaway

Have you heard of Julia Phillips’ novel, Disappearing Earth? It’s been named one of the best books of 2019. We have a copy of the ARC.   Fill out the form below to win this debut novel.

From the publisher:

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

A Best Book of 2019: Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus, AV Club

-National Book Award Finalist
-Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard prize
-Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
-National Best Seller

One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls–sisters, eight and eleven–go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women.

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 the 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.

In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer’s virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.