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Review to come after I think on this brilliant debut novel for a bit longer.
The book starts strong with two girls disappearing. The rest of the book I didn't much like. Each month for the following year is covered with the story of a different woman in the region where the girls disappeared. The women are mostly rather tangentially connected to the missing girls. The stories for the most part were really dark and depressing, covering topics like domestic violence and rape. I must have added this to my tbr shelf thinking it would be much more of a mystery novel, that's n
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This was a wonderful reading experience for so many reasons it is set on the Kamchatka peninsula - which is a part of Russia so far east that if you went further east you would hit Alaska. Because it is a peninsula, it is very hard to get in and out of. The story begins as two girls ages 8 and 12 are abducted. Each chapter takes place in a successive month for the next year. There are many characters so it is good that there is a main character list at the beginning of the book. Then each chapte
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Such a good idea to write this.
The women— educated, maternal, dreamers, ambitious, dissatisfied, non-maternal, hopeful, stuck...
And Malysh. That was hard.
The women— educated, maternal, dreamers, ambitious, dissatisfied, non-maternal, hopeful, stuck...
And Malysh. That was hard.
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