Vendela Vida - Books

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Vida has written four books. Published in 2003, And Now You Can Go is a novel set in New York, San Francisco, and the Philippines, tracing the impulsive journeys of a young woman in the wake of an assault. In a 2003 'Guardian article Vida voiced her plan to author a trilogy of novels "on the subject of violence and rage." The second novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name takes place in Lapland and was published in 2007. Vida's most recent novel, The Lovers, was published in June 2010 by Ecco. Joyce Carol Oates called "The Lovers" "a riveting and suspenseful novel about an American woman’s voyage to self-discovery.”

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