THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. Literature DISAPPEARING EARTH: An Evening with Julia Phillips Monday, April 13 8:00 PM One of The New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2019 National Bestseller, and National Book Award Finalist. 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. Echoes of this disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. In her extraordinary first novel—taut as a thriller--Fulbright scholar Julia Phillips charts the chilly, mysterious landscape of this remote Northern peninsula.