Vendela Vida, Author . Knopf $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4027-8
Ellis, the 21-year-old narrator of Vida's lean, absorbing first novel, is forced at gunpoint to sit and talk with a man in a New York City park as he contemplates a murder/suicide. Like Scheherazade, she reels off half-remembered poems to try to
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Vendela Vida, Author . Ecco $23.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-06-082837-0
Believer
co-editor Vida again explores violence, its aftermath and the curative powers of travel in her bleak second novel. (Her debut, 2003's And Now You Can Go
, sent a young woman to the Philippines after a traumatic event.) But this time...
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Vendela Vida, Author . Ecco $23.99 (228p) ISBN 978-0-06-082839-4
The overwrought latest from Vida (Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
) concerns itself with paradoxes of intimacy: isolation within a closely tied family and the unexpected affection between strangers from different cultures. Twenty-six years...
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Vendela Vida. Ecco, $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-211091-6
A 34-year-old divorcée takes a 10-day vacation in Casablanca and, after her backpack is stolen, decides to shed her identity, a decision that releases her into the streets of Morocco and the depths of her own past. With her fourth novel, Vida (The...
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Vendela Vida, Author, Vida, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-20044-2
In an attempt to investigate the rituals that help American girls develop their adult identities, Vida, a graduate of the Columbia University M.F.A. program, infiltrates a sorority, attends a Wiccan Sabbath and observes Las Vegas drive-through...
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Vendela Vida. Ecco, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-293623-3
Vida spins a spirited if uneven coming-of-age yarn around a girl’s disappearance in 1984 San Francisco. Eulabee, 13, is growing up in Sea Cliff, where she and her charismatic best friend, Maria Fabiola, along with their friends Julia and Faith,...
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