The Lovers: A Novel
Vida Vendela“Vendela Vida has written a riveting & suspenseful novel about an American woman’s voyage to self-discovery.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
“Stunning. A masterful meditation on grief and love. The Lovers is a sensational novel from one of our finest writers at the height of her craft.”
—Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries
In 2007, Vendela Vida’s novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. With her new novel, The Lovers, former Kate Chopin Writing Award winner Vida tells a powerful & beautiful tale of a widow returning alone to the site of her honeymoon in Turkey, & her subsequent journeys through her past & her present.
°°°Vendela Vida is the award-winning author of six books, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name & 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 & coeditor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers & 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, & lives in the Bay Area with her family.