The Uses of Enchantment: A Novel
 

The Uses of Enchantment: A Novel

by Heidi Julavits

In late afternoon on November 7, 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal was abducted after field hockey practice at her all-girls New England prep school.

Or was she?

A few weeks later an unharmed Mary reappears as suddenly and mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming to have little memory of what happened to her. Her socially ambitious mother, a compelling if frosty woman... (read more)

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jasonpettus
  • Rated 5 stars

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com].)

Okay, I admit it; that the subject of today's review was not scheduled to be read for another three or four books now in my queue list (i.e. the pile of library books and advanced reading copies at the foot of my bed), but was purposely moved up because of recently filing a very bad review here of Nell Freudenberger's The Dissident. And that's because, as a white male covering an industry...

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MelissaMH
  • Rated 2 stars

This was a complex concept and plot, told from three perspectives about a teenaged girl who was abducted (supposedly) for two weeks, and when she returns home is torn apart by her mother's and family's distance, ostracized from her school and town, and analyized by two therapists who may have had their own interests and ambitions in mind more than hers. Now, as an adult, she seems a cold and disconnected person, far less powerful than she was as an imaginative, intelligent and highly...

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