Have you ever misidentified the Korean peninsula on a map, then double checked and realized you had your finger on Russia? That’s the Kamchatka Peninsula and it’s very nearly what Sarah Palin could see from her house. The skinny neck of land connecting it to the continent renders it one of the most isolated places on earth, and this book really fills in that picture. It is lonely, it is cold, and it is beautiful. Against this landscape, two sisters ages 8 and 11 are […]
Vanished from the edge of the world
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips