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In late afternoon on November 7, 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal was abducted after field hockey practice at her all-girls New England prep school. Or was she? A few weeks later an unharmed Mary reappears as suddenly and mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming to have little memory of what happened to her. Her socially ambitious mother, a compelling if frosty woman descended from a Salem witch, is concerned that Mary has somehow been sullied by the experience and sends her to therapy with a psychologist named Dr. Hammer. Mary turns out to be a cagey and difficult patient. Dr. Hammer begins to suspect thatMary concocted her tale of abduction when he discovers its parallels with a seventeenth-century narrative of a girl who was abducted by Indians and who caused her rescuer to be hanged as a witch. Hammer, eager to further his professional reputation, decides to write a book about Marys faked abduction, a project her mother sanctions, because she'd rather her daughter be a liar than a rape victim. Fifteen years later, Mary has returned to Boston for her mother's funeral. Her abductionreal or imaginedhas tainted many lives, including her own. When Mary finds a suggestive letter sen

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Author

Julavits, Heidi

Publisher

Random House LLC

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400078110

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thrillers

Rating

3.4 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14