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This is a 3.67 star review.
I can totally understand why other reviewers did not like Heidi Julavits' The Vanishers. A yound woman named Julia Severin, love that surmame, is studying at The Workshop, which is a post graduate study for psychics.
Julia has some issues, to say the least: she is left in an emotional void due to her mother's suicide when she was only a month old, her father is emotionally responsive and perfers to keep mum about her mother's suicide and pretends that her psychic gifts ...more
I can totally understand why other reviewers did not like Heidi Julavits' The Vanishers. A yound woman named Julia Severin, love that surmame, is studying at The Workshop, which is a post graduate study for psychics.
Julia has some issues, to say the least: she is left in an emotional void due to her mother's suicide when she was only a month old, her father is emotionally responsive and perfers to keep mum about her mother's suicide and pretends that her psychic gifts ...more
Very interesting. There are so many plot twists and turns, it seemed like the whole novel collapses back in on itself at the end. Kinda like Alice through the Looking Glass, but with psychics. No Mad Hatter or Queen of Hearts, but definitely reminiscent.
Apr 21, 2015
Anne
marked it as to-read
Oct 21, 2019
Jessica
marked it as to-read
