Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name: A Novel [Paperback]

On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iver­ton 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 his­tory, and must make a decision about how—and where—to live the rest of her life.

Vida gives the icy landscape and eerie, forbidding beauty and her writing has&great emotional acuity.Reading this book reminded me...how rarely a writer as precise, artful, and passionate as Vendela Vida comes along.Searing and beautiful...[Clarissa] is funny and fearless and absolutely unforgettable--just like this marvelous book.A taut, intricately layered page-turner that looks deeply and fearlessly into matters of profound human concern.A haunted, moving, gorgeous novel. It glows from within like a building made of snow.A luminescent and evocative tale of grief, free of the standard clich?s.Intimate and sweeping, LET THE NORTHERN LIGHTS ERASE YOUR NAME dazzles like sun on snow.Taut, understated, and compelling[A] stirring novel&as alive and fascinating as the brilliant atmospheric phenomenon of its title.[Vidas] stripped-down, modern approach at its best applies a wash of freshness, even innocence to age-old questions.