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THE ENCHANTED
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld is a novel about how people find magic and hope even in the worst circumstances – in this case, in a men’s penitentiary where death row prisoners are regularly executed by lethal injection.
The story revolves around an unnamed female investigator’s quest to discover information relating to a soon-to-be executed inmate’s background that can be used to overturn his sentence. It is a riveting and beautifully-written tale about the need to see people – even the most violent killers -- for who they really are.
The enchanted place is a high-security prison, seen through the eyes of an inmate on death row who escapes his surroundings by immersing himself in books, and by re-imagining the world that confines him. Instead of focusing on his dungeon-like surroundings, our narrator sees golden horses as they run deep under the earth, heat flowing like mol-ten metal from their backs. A fallen priest roams the prison halls, along with an unnamed female investigator known only as the Lady, who is tasked with discovering background information about soon-to-be executed inmates that can be used to overturn their sentences. She is put on the case of a man named York and as she digs into his past, the experience brings up ghosts of her own and threatens to destroy everything she believes in.
The main theme is redemption: the redemption of the lady and her friend, the prison chaplain, the redemption of those who knew the man scheduled for execution, and the redemption of the narrator, a convict whose magical interpretations of his life allow him to find absolute joy while living in a dungeon. The characters are all complex, interesting people and the ending is a stunner.
Like the lady in the novel, Rene Denfeld is a licensed Mitigation Specialist. She visits her clients on death row and investigates their lives, tracking down people with unfathomable secrets to share. There are only a handful of people in the country who do this work.
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Published 2014-03-03 by HarperCollins |