The Vanishers: A Novel

by Heidi Julavits | Audiobooks |
ISBN: 1611205018 Global Overview for this book
Registered by indygo88 of Lafayette, Indiana USA on 12/7/2015
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Journal Entry 1 by indygo88 from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Monday, December 7, 2015
"Julia Severn is a student at an elite institute for psychics. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, afflicted by jealousy, subjects Julia to the humiliation of reliving her mother's suicide when Julia was an infant. 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. But others have noted Julia's emerging gifts, and soon she's recruited to track down an elusive missing person who might have a connection to her mother. As Julia sifts through ghosts and astral clues, everything she thought she knew of her mother is called into question, and she discovers that her ability to know the minds of others goes far deeper than she ever imagined."

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Journal Entry 2 by indygo88 at Lafayette, Indiana USA on Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Julia is a student at a special institute for psychics. She is under the tutelage of Madame Ackerman, a renowned psychic at the institute who begins to suspect that Julia's powers are underestimated and proceeds to take advantage of her, as well as pressing for details of Julia's mother's death by suicide when Julia was just an infant. Soon after, Julia suffers a "psychic attack" and becomes physically and emotionally ill. As she struggles to make sense of things, new people begin entering her life and odd things begin to surface.

I really had no idea what I was getting into when I started reading this one. My plot summary sounds confusing, but that's because this novel is just that: confusing. My head was spinning a large portion of the time, trying to make sense of what I was reading. It's an odd story with a very surreal element. And yet. Normally I would blow this off as too weird and just move along, but it was intriguing enough to keep me reading. The story was kind of wacko, but the writing was good. This is one of those novels that will either appeal to you or it won't, even though I sort of fell somewhere in the middle.

Journal Entry 3 by indygo88 at Lafayette, Indiana USA on Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Released 4 yrs ago (8/7/2019 UTC) at Lafayette, Indiana USA

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