{"product_id":"the-enchanted-a-novel-isbn-9780062285508","title":"The Enchanted: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wondrous and redemptive debut novel, set in a stark world where evil and magic coincide, \u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted\u003c\/em\u003e combines the empathy and lyricism of Alice Sebold with the dark, imaginative power of Stephen King.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This is an enchanted place. Others don’t see it, but I do.\" \u003c\/em\u003eThe enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes and the world he inhabits. Fearful and reclusive, he senses what others cannot. Though bars confine him every minute of every day, he marries visions of golden horses running beneath the prison, heat flowing like molten metal from their backs with the devastating violence of prison life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo outsiders venture here: a fallen priest and the Lady, an investigator who searches for buried information from prisoners’ pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, honesty and corruption—ultimately revealing shocking secrets of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautiful and transcendent, \u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us of how our humanity connects us all, and how beauty and love exist even amidst the most nightmarish reality.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe lady, an investigator who excels at uncovering information to save her clients from execution . . . \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe fallen priest, beaten down by his guilt over a terrible sin and its tragic consequences . . . \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe warden, a kind man within a cruel system . . . \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe mute prisoner, sensing what others cannot in what he calls \"this enchanted place\" . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe enchanted place is an ancient stone prison. Two outsiders walk here: a woman known only as the lady, and a fallen priest. The lady comes to the prison when she has a job to do. She's skilled at finding the secrets that get men off death row. This gift threatens her career—and complicates her life—when she takes on the case of York, a killer whose date of execution looms. York is different from the lady's former clients: he wants to die. Going against the condemned man's wishes, the lady begins her work. What she uncovers about York's birth and upbringing rings chillingly familiar. In York's shocking and shameful childhood, the lady sees the shadows of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lady is watched by a death row inmate who finds escape in the books he reads from the prison library and by reimagining the world he inhabits—a world of majestic golden horses that stampede underground and of tiny men who hammer away inside stone walls. He is not named, nor do we know his crime. But he listens. He listens to York's story. He sees the lady fall in love with the priest and wonders how such warmth is possible in these crumbling corridors. As tensions in \"this enchanted place\" build, he sees the corruption and the danger. And he waits as the hour of his own destiny approaches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted\u003c\/em\u003e is a magical novel about redemption, the poetry that can exist within the unfathomable, and the human capacity to transcend and survive even the most nightmarish reality. Beautiful and unexpected, this is a memorable story.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted\u003c\/em\u003e is unlike anything I’ve ever read. Its exquisitely constructed web is spun in that least exquisite locale, Death Row. The powerful central story arches over multiple, piercing sub-plots, and devastating fables that stare straight into the face of horror. But it is the opposite of depressing; it’s a jubilant celebration that explores human darkness with a profound lyric tenderness and not one jot of sentimentality.  It’s probably mad to perceive and convey so much beauty in the midst of the vile, but this particular lunacy is contagious and seductive. The reader comes to see through Denfeld’s strange lens, and to savor the richness of the view long after the final page has turned.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKatherine Dunn, author of Geek Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rene Denfeld is a genius. In \u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted\u003c\/em\u003e, she has imagined one of the grimmest settings in the world—a dank and filthy death row in a corrupt prison—and given us one of the most beautiful, heart-rending, and riveting novels I have ever read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All The Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted\u003c\/em\u003e wrapped its beautiful and terrible fingers around me from the first page and refused to let go after the last. A wondrous book that finds transcendence in the most unlikely of places, enshrouding horrible things in a gossamer veil of fantasy with a truly unforgettable narrator. So dark yet so exquisite.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eErin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If you enjoy mystery and suspense as well as a bit of magic and horror you will find it all here. The story is enthralling and keeps you reading far into the night.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted\u003c\/em\u003e is instead a testament to the power of words, of language and symbols to reshape one’s reality, and it is an extraordinarily empathetic look at the sorrows and joys of even the worst aspects of human life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Oregonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Enchanted\u003c\/i\u003e wrapped its beautiful and terrible fingers around me from the first page and refused to let go after the last. A wondrous book that finds transcendence in the most unlikely of places . . . So dark yet so exquisite.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eErin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted\u003c\/em\u003e is unlike anything I’ve ever read. . . . Contagious and seductive. The reader comes to see through Denfeld’s strange lens, and to savor the richness of the view long after the final page has turned.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKatherine Dunn, author of Geek Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] impressive debut. . . . Read this magical book, and prepare to be spellbound.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Enchanted\u003c\/i\u003e explores the complexities of many crucial issues, including how we treat our children and the vulnerable and the consequences of our actions. 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