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23 reviews
Heidi Julavits

Berkley Trade, 2004

Alice's Adventures in Absurdity.
On one level, Heidi Julavits' critically-acclaimed 2003 novel, The Effect of Living Backwards, may be read as a story of two sisters, Alice and Edith, who are flying to Morocco for Edith's wedding, when their flight is hijacked by a blind man named Bruno, forcing passengers to consider whether they would sacrifice their own lives to save another. However, with its eccentric "shame stories," the ...

The Mineral Palace

29 reviews
Heidi Julavits

Berkley Trade, 2001

A debut to remember
It is a mark of distinction in a novelist when she can pull such deep emotions from a reader. This novel is the first from an author reminiscient of Joyce Carol Oates in her darkest days. We have a semi-fictional era portrayed from generations ago full of dispair from monumental disasters, financial and otherwise, with hope a scarce commodity. Julavits shapes the edges of her story with gut ...

The Uses of Enchantment: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

26 reviews
Heidi Julavits

Anchor, 2008

Beautiful, smart, perfect
This novel was one of my favorite books of 2007. It's nearly perfect in its execution. It's tight, well-conceived, and deeply human. If you love to think and love narrators who think, I can't recommend it highly enough.

The Believer, Issue 56: September 2008 (Believer)

McSweeney's, Believer Magazine, 2008

The Believer is an amiable yet rigorous forum for book criticism, providing an alternative to the plot summary squib that has become synonymous with "book review." Each issue includes interviews with philosophers, politicians, poets, and ninjas. Nick Hornby has a widely celebrated books column, and Amy Sedaris (as well as well-known guest-columnists) offers hilariously bad advice. The celebrated graphic novelist Charles Burns illustrates the ...