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spellbound.(The Uses of Enchantment)(Book review)
Byline: Taylor Antrim
In Heidi Julavits's provocative new novel The Uses of Enchantment (Doubleday), sixteen-year-old Mary Veal vanishes from her West Salem, Massachusetts, prep school, Semmering Academy, one gloomy day in November 1985. Seven weeks later she reappears with short-term amnesia. Was she abducted? Or did she, like that Semmering sophomore from the seventies, Bettina Spencer, fake the whole thing? In combative meetings with her career-minded therapist, the precocious Mary, whose seventeenth-century ancestor was an accused witch, claims to have been under a spell-but she also mimics Dora, Freud's famously "deluded" patient. Getting nowhere, Dr. Hammer asks what question she'd like to be asked: "I would like to be asked if I enjoyed myself," Mary responds.
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