This highly acclaimed novel is set in current day Kamchatka. There are 12 chapters, one per month beginning in August when two sisters disappear from the beach near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the regional capital on the Pacific shore. The mystery of their disappearance is the background to the stories of the women of this community, where natives dominate and Russians (white people) are the minority. The natives are one or two generations removed from reindeer herding, fishing and other ancient ways of life. Just about all of the men, native or white, are pretty unreliable in this matriarchy in a society beyond contemplation to us. This is an interesting story with intriguing background on the Pacific coast of Russia.
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