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Mysteriously vanishing after field hockey practice at her all-girls New England prep school, sixteen-year-old Mary reappears several weeks later as suddenly as she disappeared, an event that has profound repercussions for all involved, including the psychologist who treats her, Mary's mother, and for Mary herself. By the author of The Mineral Palace. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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One Autumn day in 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal vanishes from her Massachusetts prep school. A few weeks later she reappears unharmed and with little memory of what happened to her--or at least little that she is willing to share. Was Mary abducted, or did she fake her disappearance? This question haunts Mary's family, her psychologist, even Mary herself. Weaving together three narratives, The Uses of Enchantment conjures a spell in which the hallucinatory power of a young woman’s sexuality, and her desire to wield it, has devastating consequences for all involved.
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