The uses of enchantment

By Heidi Julavits

The Vanishers

By Heidi Julavits

The folded clock

By Heidi Julavits

"Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) she'd since becom...

The mineral palace

By Heidi Julavits

"The year is 1934, and Bena Duse Jonssen, the midwestern wife of a doctor, and young mother of a newborn, has an outwardly comfortable existence unaffected by the Great Depression. But she is plagu...

The Effect of Living Backwards

By Heidi Julavits

Rival siblings and soul mates Alice and Edith, the former a "good girl," the latter a wanton ne'er-do-well, put their shared manipulative talents to the test when the plane they are on is hijacked...

Women in clothes

By Sheila Heti, Leanne Shapton, Heidi Julavits

"An exploration of the questions we ask ourselves while getting dressed every day, and the answers from more than six hundred women"--From back cover.

The mineral palace

By Heidi Julavits

The Effect of Living Backwards

By Heidi Julavits

Following her acclaimed debut, The Mineral Palace, Heidi Julavits presents a quirky, compelling novel about two sisters, a bizarre event, and the elusive nature of truth—a New York Times Notable Bo...

The Folded Clock

By Heidi Julavits

A New York Times Notable BookRereading her childhood diaries, Heidi Julavits hoped to find incontrovertible proof that she was always destined to be a writer. Instead, they “revealed me to po...

The Uses of Enchantment

By Heidi Julavits

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...