Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - by Vendela Vida (Paperback)

About the Book

On the day of her fathers funeral, 28-year-old Clarissa Iverton discovers that he wasnt her biological father. On a mission to find her real father, she is confronted with the truth about her mothers past and finally must make a decision about how--and where--to live the rest of her life.

Book Synopsis

On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iver-ton 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 his-tory, and must make a decision about how--and where--to live the rest of her life.

Review Quotes

"Vida gives the icy landscape and eerie, forbidding beauty and her writing has...great emotional acuity." -- The New Yorker

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

"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

"A luminescent and evocative tale of grief, free of the standard clichés." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"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

"Taut, understated, and compelling" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"[A] stirring novel...as alive and fascinating as the brilliant atmospheric phenomenon of its title." -- Chicago Tribune

"[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