It is a beautiful and real place, and yet, to me, with my Guyanese/Caribbean/South American identity, it feels surreal in how utterly foreign and fascinating it is in the novel. Children might help to herd deer with their grandparents while on their breaks from school. In Kamchatka, people can be found walking in the city of Petropavlask and people can be found camping in the forests. ‘Disappearing Earth’ by Julia Phillips, 2019, Knopf There is a blend of races, whites and indigenous peoples, who intermingle and yet retain strained relationships with each other. Here, there are mountains and forests, as well as a cold ocean, that all come together to isolate the spot of land. Kamchatka, a peninsula in Russia, is the setting. It managed to carry me to a place that I had never heard of before. ‘Disappearing Earth,’ by Julia Phillips is one of these kinds of books for me. It is through reading that we get to travel to real-world locales, such as the Sahara Desert or Tokyo, as well as completely made-up places, such as Hogwarts or Narnia. ONE of the great things about books, as our teachers and family members had told us countless times in the past when we were children, is the ability of literature to transport readers to faraway places.
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