One August afternoon, two sisters - Sofia, eight, and Alyona, eleven - go missing from a beach on the far-flung Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia. Echoes of their disappearance reverberate across their tightly knit community. Taking us through the year that follows, Disappearing Earth enters the lives of women and girls in Kamchatka, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. A National Book Award-shortlisted debut from an important new voice in fiction.