The Vanishers

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From the acclaimed novelist and editor of The Believer, a wildly imaginative, darkly funny, and emotionally powerful novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another

Is the bond between mother and daughter unbreakable, even by death?
Julia Severn, a student at an elite institute for psychics, has learned her lessons too well. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, grows jealous of her young disciple's talents, and so subjects Julia to the humiliation of reliving a painful event: her mother's suicide. As the two lock horns, and Julia gains power, Madame Ackermann launches a desperate psychic attack that leaves Julia the victim of a crippling ailment.
Julia retreats to an anonymous existence in Manhattan. But others have noted Julia's emerging gifts, and soon she's recruited to track down an elusive missing person—a con-hroversial artist who might have a connection to her mother. As Julia sifts through ghosts and astral clues,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

From the acclaimed novelist and editor of The Believer, a wildly imaginative, darkly funny, and emotionally powerful novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another

Is the bond between mother and daughter unbreakable, even by death?
Julia Severn, a student at an elite institute for psychics, has learned her lessons too well. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, grows jealous of her young disciple's talents, and so subjects Julia to the humiliation of reliving a painful event: her mother's suicide. As the two lock horns, and Julia gains power, Madame Ackermann launches a desperate psychic attack that leaves Julia the victim of a crippling ailment.
Julia retreats to an anonymous existence in Manhattan. But others have noted Julia's emerging gifts, and soon she's recruited to track down an elusive missing person—a con-hroversial artist 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—as well as her own—goes far deeper than she ever imagined.
As provocative and gripping as all of Heidi Julavits's acclatnned novels. The Vanishers is a stunning meditation on grief, female rivalry, and the furious power of a daughter's love.

A founding editor of The Believer magazine and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, HEIDI JULAVITS isalsotheauthor of three critically acclaimed novels: The Uses of Enchantment, The Effect of Living Backwards, and The Mineral Palace.
Heidi Julavits's The Uses of Enchantment is available ,
in Anchor paperback.
www.doubleday.com
' - 'Praise for ^
THE VAN/SHERS i ¦ : . .
"It is always an adventure and a delight to read Heidi Julavits.
Her intellectual brio and descriptive inventiveness are on full.
display in The Vanishers, but she's gone further this time by
inventing a new genre: the astral detective thriller."
—JENNIFER EGAN, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
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"The Vanishers is one of the best novels I've ever read, delivering all thé immediate pleasures of mystery, horror, and satire while exploring grief in language that is as shocking for its originality as its precision. Julavits 4 takes readers on a wild ride that hops continents and ^ decades, but the real setting of The Vanishers is the gray territory between sickness and health, sanity and
delusion, love and hatred, life and death." -KAREN RUSSELL, author of Swampiandia! and St. Lucy's Home for Giris Raised by Wolves
"The Vanishers is a fascinating inquiry into matriarchal structures: their power struggles, the projections, distortions, and anxieties that result, and, above all, the creative—and destructive—energies that they unleash. a real achievement." ^
—TOM McCarthy, author of/?e/T7a/nder and C Vissza