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beautifulshell 's review for:
Disappearing Earth
by Julia Phillips
My impulse at the end was 5 stars but I knocked it down to 4 because of the improbability of the ending. It's very effective and powerful, but so unlikely.
I loved the writing and the construction; the chapters seem self-contained and mostly disconnected but are very much thematically related and merge together as they near the conclusion. It's an uncommon structure that succeeds, for me, in capturing the ambiguity and piecemeal nature of a missing persons case like this one. The snapshots are limited but inform each other enough to complete the circle.
Different. Very recommended.
(Summer reading: a book set in another country.)
I loved the writing and the construction; the chapters seem self-contained and mostly disconnected but are very much thematically related and merge together as they near the conclusion. It's an uncommon structure that succeeds, for me, in capturing the ambiguity and piecemeal nature of a missing persons case like this one. The snapshots are limited but inform each other enough to complete the circle.
Different. Very recommended.
(Summer reading: a book set in another country.)