We Run the Tides - Large Print by Vendela Vida (Paperback)

About the Book

"Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend Maria Fabiola own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff's homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters--as well as the upscale all-girls' school they attend. One day, walking to school with friends, they witness a horrible act--or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola's sudden disappearance--a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths"--

Book Synopsis

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An achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco
Teenage
Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea
Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff's
homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters--as well as the
upscale all-girls' school they attend. One day, walking to school with friends,
they witness a horrible act--or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently
disagree on what happened, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola's
sudden disappearance--a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and
threatens to expose unspoken truths.

Suspenseful
and poignant, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida's masterful portrait of
an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre-tech boom San
Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the
center of this story of innocence lost, the pain of too much freedom, and the
struggle to find one's authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth,
We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the
wonders of youth, in all its beauty and confusion.

Review Quotes

"The young narrator of Vendela Vida's new novel is cast out of her friend crew (For what? For nothing) at the moment she and the girls around her are just beginning to understand the power they hold, and how to wield it. There's violence lurking here, but also humor (it's funny!), also love. This is one of the best novels about girlhood and female friendship I've ever read." - Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes
"I didn't want it to end." - Tom Stoppard
"The dreamy yearning and turmoil of youth are evoked here so vividly as to seem supernaturally conjured. However long ago you were a teenager, We Run the Tides will bring the quandaries and sensations right back. Vendela Vida has written a novel of absorbing, exquisite economy and percipience. She has also written an intimate allegory of our unraveling tether to truth." - Lisa Halliday, author of Asymmetry
"The girls in this book are everything, all of us: shape-shifters and outcasts, predators and prey, they lean into and away from the world that claims to know them. Vendela Vida is an astoundingly good writer and the ideas she's wrestling with in these pages--about sexuality and seeing, storytelling and identity--are profound." - Danzy Senna, author of New People
"We Run the Tides is smart, perceptive, elegant, sad, surprising and addictive. And it's also FUNNY. Who knew that you could combine all of those qualities into one slim volume? Not many writers, that's for sure. I loved every single page, and was sorry when I had to say goodbye to Eulabee and her family." - Nick Hornby
"[A]n engaging, intelligent story." - Town & Country
"Vida populates her stories with liars, runaways, the reckless -- those most adept at reconfiguring their appearances, those caught in the process of becoming. She is excellent at writing teenagers, who try on and discard identities as quickly as the days pass. . . . A nod to Edith Wharton. . . . Detailed and vibrant . . . As much a novel of girlhood vulnerability as it is a story fortification and fear." - Los Angeles Review of Books
"In We Run the Tides, author Vendela Vida has crafted a coming-of-age tale replete with friendship, sexuality and a good dose of mystery. Vida's writing shines as she captures this exciting, vulnerable and sometimes worrisome time when a girl is puzzling out her position in the world, who she wants to be, and how that fits with the person others have decided she already is." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Vendela Vida crafts a tense tale of girlhood, privilege, and innocence."
- Alma
"[A] perceptive tale of losing innocence and finding one's true self. As consistently surprising as it is hauntingly resonant (not to mention often very funny), Vida'smchronicle of female friendship is a fast, addictive read." - Entertainment Weekly
"[T]here's something naughty, almost gleeful about this nostalgia-soaked portrayal of pre-tech-boom San Francisco that keeps the pages turning." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Exhilarating, maddening, thoroughly entertaining novel...irresistible voice...With its tangible, tactile details peppered throughout and super-smart, quirky Eulabee at it's helm, We Run the Tides is deceptively sweet--and as addictive as candy." - Boston Globe
"We Run the Tides is knowing, sometimes funny and always propulsive as it examines girlhood, friendship, and the strong pull of the past." - Meg Wolitzer