Find it on the new book shelf of your Mendocino Community Library.An up-and-coming actress risks her career to find a missing woman, discovering the dark side of Hollywood's glamour along the way.Ĭoming off a big film role and an unexpected breakup, British actress Mia Eliot heads to Los Angeles for pilot season and a string of big-name auditions. Phillips brings the characters together in a stunning novel. Author Phillips shows us a Russia where tensions and longing have always existed as she sets this against the crime of two missing sisters. Some of them do, by being kidnapped or “taken” by aliens. Many of these female characters want to leave their husbands, and their present situations. Their brother, Denis, who is retarded, says she was taken by aliens to outer space. Natasha’s younger sister went missing at age seventeen. Natasha’s neighbor invites her over for tea. Her husband Yuri is out on a military submarine for the season. Next, we meet Natasha and her two children. She could be killed for admitting she’s a lesbian. Masha says she has an important job and lives with her girlfriend. After the heat of the sauna, they go outside where it is freezing, sit on the front step next to each other. Lada recalls how they would go hiking up the volcano when they were young girls. She is still beautiful in her bikini after all these years. Her old friend Masha, returns from St Petersburg. She gets drunk and everyone goes into the sauna. Author Phillips gives us the setting and backstory. She recalls the summers with her family, herding the deer, cooking around the fire, sleeping in the yurt with the moon shining in. She likes that Ruslan protects her, and keeps in touch by phone. In the class, she makes a male friend, Chander. But when she takes a dancing class with her room mate Alisa, she is on her own. He wants to know where she is every minute. Kyusha is another character in this Russian town. She is sent to the hospital and taken into the OR. It’s been there for months and she doesn’t realize how serious it is. It’s also about Diana’s mother Valentine, who goes to the doctor because of a small blister on her chest. But when he scares the bear away by honking the car’s horn, she decides she loves him after all.

Katya thinks Max is incompetent and she could never be with him. There’s also Max and Katya, a couple going camping to a hot springs.

She dislikes her and her mother for being different. Diana’s mother doesn’t want her daughter to be with Olya. It is also about two friends, Diana and Olya, high school girls who hang out together. Disappearing Earth, by Julia Phillips, is the story of two sisters, Alyona and Sophia, who disappear from a small community in Russia.

Characters in disappearing earth