Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviewed by: A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat Wesley Jacques Fraistat, Ann A Place for Vanishing. Delacorte, 2024 [464p] Trade ed. ISBN 9780593382219 $19.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780593382226 $10.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 7-11 In the wake of her failed suicide attempt, Isabel “Libby” Feldman, her little sister, and her mother move into a massive, worn-down Queen Anne Victorian house that quickly reveals itself to be perhaps more Gothic—in the undoubtedly haunted and grotesque sense. Libby’s mother is convinced the new location (a family inheritance she had all but neglected until now) will help with the healing process, but the house seems the opposite of comforting, given the overgrowth of thorny blue roses, the apparent infestation of eerie insects, and a shady history with seances dating back to the 1890s. Their mother’s established connection to the house makes her the first to be wholly taken over by one of the unique bug or flower masks found [End Page 176] in each room, and all three are coaxed and seduced by the power that the different masks offer to a uniquely vulnerable family still reeling from a crisis. Libby’s mental health (including diagnoses of bipolar III and generalized anxiety disorder) and the effect it has on her family is presented with nuance and compassion, authentically explored while woven into the overall plot. Coupling her unease with the motifs of creepy seance masks, squirming bugs, and the uncontrolled sprawl of rose bushes, the novel is strikingly meaningful—and effectively unsettling—in its considerations of performance, metamorphosis, and growth. Even in the chaos, Libby manages to crush on a boy, but the threat of having their souls destroyed and bodies stolen only seems to heighten the more palpable risk of dating amid very real trauma. The horror and unease smartly function on so many levels at once, but triggers abound, nonetheless. Copyright © 2024 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".