Disappearing Earth
What does Olya's mother do for a living in the novel, Disappearing Earth?
Disappearing Earth
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Disappearing Earth
Olya's mother is an interpreter. She travels a lot with tourist groups translating the speech of their official guide's Russian to Japanese. Since Olya's mother is gone for weeks at a time, Olya is on her own a lot.
Disappearing Earth