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355 pp.
| Abrams/Amulet |
October, 2014 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4197-1216-6$17.95
(2)
YA
In Portland, Oregon, 1900, strong-willed seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead supports suffrage; her overbearing single father does not. Dr. Mead hires handsome hypnotist Henri Reverie to "teach her to accept the world the way it truly is." Fluid boundaries between what's tangible and what's intuited, lucidity and unconsciousness, sanity and madness are particularly apt for this story about hypnotism and emotional manipulation. Reading list, timeline.
Reviewer: Katie Bircher
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2014