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nighthawk 's review for:
The Vanishers
by Heidi Julavits
it's a rare novel that captures the intensity and disorientation of certain deep connections with appropriate strangeness, darkness and humor. i think, perhaps, what julavits articulates here, in part, is the visceral experience of metaphysical moments (i.e., how it feels to intuit, to love, to grieve, to hide from ones emotions, to make oneself metaphysically sick) -- and in doing begins to create a language for emotions or experiences that, to my knowledge, don't yet have names, or at least, evade a shared, common language. the strangeness of this novel felt resonant, and challenging, and frightening -- all of which i seek out in great fiction -- all while avoiding comfort, which is such a narcotic, the temptation towards it an addiction, and which is so difficult to resist, especially when dealing with death & mothers.