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Vendela Vida writes fiction about women whose lives are disrupted by violence: her first novel,
And Now You Can Go (2003), begins, “It was 2:15 in the afternoon of December 2 when a man holding a gun approached me in Riverside Park.” And her characters often face crises of identity. After her father dies, Clarissa journeys to Lapland in search of her mother and her real father’s identity (
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, 2007). Yvonne, a newly widowed woman in the early stages of grief, returns to the Turkish village where she spent her honeymoon (
The Lovers, 2010). Vida’s tone is lighter, sometimes tender, in her sixth novel.