In the first chapter, a disappearance does take place: Two young sisters are lured into a strange man's car after he tells them his leg is hurt and he needs help. Kamchatka, with its main city of Petropavlovsk, forms the backdrop to a stunning debut novel from Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth. Rife with wildlife, volcanoes, and treacherous topography, it's also almost inaccessible, with no major roads connecting it to the rest of Russia - because it was a closed military zone until 1989. While the peninsular Russian province of Kamchatka is not exactly in Sarah Palin's sightline, its far, far Eastern and Northern coordinates make it more like Nome than Moscow.
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