Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name

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.

Author: Vendela Vida
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 01/02/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.36w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780060828387
Award: Discover Great New Writers - Third Place

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/10/2008 pg. 32

About the Author
Vida, Vendela: -

Vendela Vida is the award-winning author of six books, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty. Her new novel, We Run the Tides, will be published by Ecco on February 9, 2021. She is a founding editor of The Believer and coeditor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers and Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence, a collection of interviews with musicians. She was a founding board member of 826 Valencia, the San Francisco writing center for youth, and lives in the Bay Area with her family.