Elizabeth Gilbert cancels release of Russian-set novel after backlash.

Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert has announced that she will pull her upcoming novel, "The Snow Forest," from publication following online outcries about its Russian setting. Gilbert cited "an enormous, massive outpouring of reactions and responses from my Ukrainian readers, expressing anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain about the fact that I would choose to release a book into the world right now, any book, no matter what the subject of it is, that is set in Russia." The novel was inspired by the true story of a religious Russian family who, in the 1930s, left Russia for a life of extreme solitude in Siberia, only to be discovered decades later by Soviet geologists.