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14 hours ago · A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor — a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods, by the celebrated, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth. They were sisters and they would last past the end of time.
3 days ago · Bear (June 25, Julia Phillips): On paper, Disappearing Earth shouldn’t have been a book I loved (remember Horny Reindeer Teens from last year??), but Phillips captured me with her evocative and pulsing language. Now, she’s back with a sisters story set in WA State and involving a swimming bear and a dead-end island.
4 days ago · Phillips sets a mystical tone throughout the novel by using fairy-tale tropes, while also highlighting universal tensions about family and selfhood. "Bear" is Phillips' second novel, and the Brooklyn-based author is already widely known as a force to be reckoned with thanks to her debut success "Disappearing Earth."
5 days ago · In Julia Phillips’s second novel (after 2019’s Disappearing Earth), the fraught relationship between the hordes of vacationers that descend on Washington State’s San Juan Island every...
3 days ago · Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing.
4 days ago · Look no further for your next read. The amount of great new books hitting shelves each month can be overwhelming so we’ve rounded up ten books coming out next month that both…
3 days ago · A bizarre binary system says 'yes'. A spotted blue star shines bright, emanating its light across space as a small black sphere in its lower right corner intrudes on its reality. Scientists have ...
