The Vanishers

Written by Heidi Julavits

Narrated by Xe Sands

A wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers and daughters.--Julia Severn is a student at an elite institute for psychics. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Mar 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781666606683

Heidi Julavits

Heidi Julavits is the author of four critically acclaimed novels (The Vanishers, The Uses of Enchantment, The Effect of Living Backwards, and The Mineral Palace) and co-editor, with Sheila Heti and Leanne Shapton, of the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes. Her fiction has appeared in Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, and The Best American Short Stories, among other places. She's a founding editor of The Believer magazine and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Manhattan, where she teaches at Columbia University. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine.