num_pages: 356
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Uses of Enchantment
titlecomplete: The Uses of Enchantment
characters: sisters Regina and Gaby, Mary Veal
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Psychology, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1297
publisher: Anchor