The Vanishers
Author: JULAVITS, HEIDI
ISBN: 9780307387363
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Sep 2015
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
From the acclaimed novelist and The Believer editor Heidi Julavits, a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another.
From the acclaimed novelist of The Folded Clock and founding editor of The Believer magazinecomes a "sharp-eyed, sardonic, hilarious" novel (The New York Times Book Review) aboutgrief, female rivalry, and the furious power of a daughter's love.
Julia Severn is a talented student at an elite institute for psychics. When Julia's mentor, the legendary Madame Ackerman, grows jealous of her protegee's talents, she subjects Julia to the painful humiliation of reliving her mother's suicide . . . and then launches a desperate psychic attack.
But Julia's gifts, though a threat to her teacher, prove an asset to others. Soon she's recruited to track down a missing person who might have a connection to her mother. As Julia sifts through ghosts and astral clues, everything she thought she knew about her mother is called into question, and she discovers that her ability to know the minds of others-including her own-goes far deeper than she ever imagined.
ISBN: 9780307387363
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Sep 2015
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
From the acclaimed novelist and The Believer editor Heidi Julavits, a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another.
From the acclaimed novelist of The Folded Clock and founding editor of The Believer magazinecomes a "sharp-eyed, sardonic, hilarious" novel (The New York Times Book Review) aboutgrief, female rivalry, and the furious power of a daughter's love.
Julia Severn is a talented student at an elite institute for psychics. When Julia's mentor, the legendary Madame Ackerman, grows jealous of her protegee's talents, she subjects Julia to the painful humiliation of reliving her mother's suicide . . . and then launches a desperate psychic attack.
But Julia's gifts, though a threat to her teacher, prove an asset to others. Soon she's recruited to track down a missing person who might have a connection to her mother. As Julia sifts through ghosts and astral clues, everything she thought she knew about her mother is called into question, and she discovers that her ability to know the minds of others-including her own-goes far deeper than she ever imagined.
