Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (Paperback)
Description
On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iverton discovers that he wasn't her biological father after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and her fiancé has just revealed a life-changing secret to her. Alone and adrift, Clarissa travels to mystical Lapland, where she believes she'll meet her real father. There, at a hotel made of ice, Clarissa is confronted with the truth about her mother's history, and must make a decision about how—and where—to live the rest of her life.
About the Author
Vendela Vida is the author of the critically acclaimed novel And Now You Can Go and of Girls on the Verge, a journalistic exploration of female coming-of-age rituals. A founding coeditor of The Believer magazine, she lives with her husband and daughter in northern California.
Praise for Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name…
"A luminescent and evocative tale of grief, free of the standard clichs."
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A haunted, moving, gorgeous novel. It glows from within like a building made of snow."
-Andrew Sean Greer, author of THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI
"[Vida's] stripped-down, modern approach at its best applies a wash of freshness, even innocence to age-old questions."
-San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"Vida gives the icy landscape and eerie, forbidding beauty and her writing has.great emotional acuity."
-The New Yorker
"Taut, understated, and compelling"
-Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"[A] stirring novel.as alive and fascinating as the brilliant atmospheric phenomenon of its title."
-Chicago Tribune
Reading this book reminded me...how rarely a writer as precise, artful, and passionate as Vendela Vida comes along.
-George Saunders, author of IN PERSUASION NATION
Searing and beautiful...[Clarissa] is funny and fearless and absolutely unforgettable--just like this marvelous book.
-Ann Packer, author of THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER
"A taut, intricately layered page-turner that looks deeply and fearlessly into matters of profound human concern."
-Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE HOURS
"Intimate and sweeping, LET THE NORTHERN LIGHTS ERASE YOUR NAME dazzles like sun on snow."
-Sean Wilsey, author of OH THE GLORY OF IT ALL
