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Expecting a beautiful tale of life in Kamchatka during the current environmental crisis, as described by the book's advertising--"a masterpiece," and a "riveting page-turner"--I found the characters hardly distinguishable, and little of the action having any bearing on what promised to be the central theme of two Russian girls kidnapped in the first chapter. There was no real plot, just a number of different women, seemingly all about the same age, involved in pretty uninteresting lives, even though presumably set in an ethnically diverse and interesting part of the world.