{"product_id":"9780385523813","title":"The Vanishers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed novelist and \u003ci\u003eThe Believe\u003c\/i\u003er editor HEIDI JULAVITS, a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIs the bond between mother and daughter unbreakable, even by death?\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003eJulia Severn is a student at an elite institute for psychics. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, afflicted by jealousy, refuses to pass the torch to her young disciple. Instead, she 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.\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003eJulia retreats to a faceless job in Manhattan. But others have noted Julia's emerging gifts, and soon she's recruited to track down an elusive missing person—a controversial artist 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—including her own—goes far deeper than she ever imagined. \u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003eAs powerful and gripping as all of Julavits's acclaimed novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Vanishers\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning meditation on grief, female rivalry, and the furious power of a daughter's love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008452018416,"sku":"9780385523813","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385523813_p0.jpg?v=1763694898","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385523813","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}