This book is an unraveling of sorts. The author takes us into rural India exploring a childhood that's beautiful until trauma strikes and they up and leave only for the youngest, Sarah to move there years later as a journalist, helping to save tigers. It's a beautifully told story with each character's views expressed in their own time and voice.
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This is a delightful novel.
Told in alternating chapters, it’s the story of two sisters and the repercussions of carrying secrets and guilt.
The writing is beautiful and the plot slowly unfolds revealing a tale of love and loss, fractured relationships, and learning to let go of the past.

A powerful story told by two sisters who lost a brother when he was 7. Raised until then in India, his twin returns to work in tiger conservation while their older sister deals with guilt and worry. I enjoyed the sisters and their story. The author made India and the plight of the tigers come to life in vivid color.

Author Katy Yocum's debut novel Three Ways to Disappear is rich and compelling. It deftly intertwines themes of family, the connections between humanity nature, and the impact secrets can have on relationships between family members and sweethearts. It took me two days after finishing this book to gather my thoughts for this review, because by the end of the book I was so emotionally invested in these characters and what might happen to them. I felt the most connected to the younger sister, Sarah. While I could empathize with Quinn, I could not always admire her. This might have been intentional on the author's part. Quinn is a smart, talented, and sensitive soul. But she has been conditioned to suppress her emotions and cope with the unfairness of the situations she is dealt without really questioning them. There were many places in this novel where I really became frustrated with her over passiveness. The very people who are supposed to love her most, often took advantage or her or sometimes treated her with open contempt. While I know this can often reflect what happens in the real world, it is still maddening to read about a character allowing this to happen in a work of fiction. For that reason, Sarah makes a very refreshing contrast to her sister. She is not perfect and she admittedly makes some poor decisions throughout her version of the story, but she is resilient, curious, smart, and tremendously brave. In her own way, she too hides from the tragedies of her past that tore her nuclear family apart when she was a child by constantly traveling and never truly settling down until she decides to give up her career in journalism. When she finally does start to settle and tentatively put down roots as an ambassador for an NGO seeking to save the endangered tigers of India, she does so in a way that is essentially forbidden and risks making her an exile and an outcast from the very place she has begun to think of as home. Still, I loved Sarah. I loved the fact that she questioned things. I admired her courage, especially the fact that she never blamed others for what happened to her throughout the story, but she always took responsibility for her own actions. I also found the romance between her and her forbidden lover to be touching and fun to read. Most of all, I was captivated by her connection to the tigers throughout the story, and I loved that this connection carried through to the very end.

It amazed me how Yocum was able to make all of these characters so real and life-like, even the tigers. Her characterization, plot and setting were all vibrant and lovely. She makes it seem effortless the way she captures the beauty and complexities of India and makes the setting as much a part of the story as the people and the animals she characterizes. The prose was also beautiful and thought provoking.

My only real complaints about the book were the ending and the way the chapters were broken down. I was caught completely by surprise by the ending of this novel. Without giving away any spoilers, I can only say that the way it ended brought to mind novels by another author who is well-known and popular and who has had several books adapted into movies. I can't even say which author I mean because that in itself would be a spoiler. While I concede that the ending is very plausible and could happen in real-life, I didn't completely believe that this is the way the story needed to end. I felt that other scenarios would have made for an equally plausible ending and that is as much as I will say about it. In terms of the way the chapters were broken down, it might be that if I'd read a paper copy of this book it wouldn't have bothered me to have each chapter titled by the sister's name only, without also numbering each chapter. This is mainly a pet peeve on my part. I gain a sense of real satisfaction when I can, in some way, measure how far I've progressed in a book as I am reading it. This is harder to do anyway with a digital copy, but not having the numbered chapters made it even more difficult.

Overall, I give this book four out of five stars. I really enjoyed reading it and had no trouble finishing it. It kept my interest all the way through to the end. I found the premise to be unique, and even though it is a work of literary fiction, it still often kept me on the edge of my seat throughout. I found it to be a beautiful, engrossing, and fun read.

A well written story you fall in love with the characters,set in India and focuses on the lives of people living there.
secrets discovered and mysteries solved.

Three Ways to Disappear is a compelling novel that perfectly balances the conservationist angle with the dramatic family drama. Locom’s writing style is beautiful and glides through the themes of family tragedy, finding oneself, forbidden love and the magic of cultural kinship to mother -nature.
Sarah DeVaughan retires from her dangerous career in journalism, and pursues her true passion, returning to the country of her childhood- sparking the personal journey of finding where home truly is.
Her older sister Quinn battles with demons of her past, and the repercussions it has on her present family life. She learns to let go, to see strong women in another world, and to overcome fear.
I felt like I was transported to India, and I was so inspired by the descriptive depiction of frontline work by the environmentalists with the animals as well as the local villagers.

One is hard pressed to say which sister in this tale of family disconnection and reunification is more compelling: the exotic Sarah, journalist-turned-wildlife-activist, or Quinn, mother and keeper of the second, intact, set of twins in the family.

The story’s dual locations of India and Louisville, Kentucky mirrors the dividing of the narrative back and forth between the sisters’ points of view, which in turn reflects the western vs. eastern branching of the tale. Which is to say more lies tantalizingly beneath the surface of this book, rewarding multiple reads.

Filled with tigers, twins, passion, second chances, and plot twists which lead to an unexpected but satisfying climax, this book mesmerizes. It also educates on the plight of tigers and their struggle to survive.

This is a beautiful novel about family and truth and being an outsider. Sarah , a journalist, takes on a job with a tiger conservation NGO in the small village in India where she and her family once lived, while in the US, her sister Quinn deals with a callous husband, a sick child, and the weight of guilt from her childhood in India. The two work to create a new relationship with each other and those around them, all the while threatened by the politics of their presence in India. The plots are compelling and the writing is gorgeous without being overambitious or false.

This novel explores many classic themes: family, belonging and survival. The writing here is very lush and the story, while on well-trodden themes, delivers a very readable take.