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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“A blistering read.
Female aggression may lurk everywhere, but Julavits decides to unleash her
antagonists in a quirky realm, the fictional Institute of Integrated
Parapsychology, a New Hampshire school for students of the occult…If you’re
lucky, you have one brazen friend who can mesmerize the room with a wild story.
If you’re not, The Vanishers will
provide a similar jolt of transgressive, feminine thrill.”
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Plain Dealer