Let the northern lights erase your name

Let the northern lights erase your name welcome back. Apr 14, 2007 let the northern lights erase your name by vendela vida 238pp, atlantic. Let the northern lights erase your name vendela vida, author. The blond bus drivers name tag said ari, but he told me, the only passenger on the bus, that his name was kari. Jan 14, 2007 like that novel, let the northern lights erase your name is deceptively slim and easy to read, its intricacy tucked into small phrases try to recognize me now and indelible images outside my.

She is also the coeditor of always apprentices, a collection of interviews with writers, and confidence, or the appearance of confidence, a collection of interviews with musicians. Let the northern lights erase your name a novel book. At the age of 28, clarissa inverton finds herself alone in. Whatever sense clarissa wins of her origins is just as brilliant, and as. B0028n73b6 let the northern lights erase your name a novel p. Lapland of course is the mythical land of the santa claus, north of the arctic circle. The setting is in finland, but beyond that ill let you experience for yourself.

A sami shaman who turns out not to be her father tells her of the northern lights, we believe they are our ancestors. Vendela vida discusses her powerful debut novel let the northern lights erase your name. But if you think its a story about a girl finding herself then. Let the northern lights erase your name release info imdb. How would it have played out differently with a different setting. Let the northern lights erase your name is the story of clarissa iverson a twentynine year old who discovers, upon her fathers death, that everything she thought was true about her family is not. Though it will be years until clarissa fully comprehends this statement. With let the northern lights erase your name, vida more than lives up to that promise as she gives us a remarkable protagonist who is both fierce and funny, and an unforgettable literary thriller that questions whether we can ever truly know where weve come fromand if it is possible to escape our pasts. On the day of her fathers funeral, twentyeightyearold clarissa iverton discovers that he wasnt her biological fath. Let the northern lights erase your name book ottawa. Vendela vida when clarissa iverton was fourteen years old, her mother disappeared and clarissa was raised by her father. Though it will be years until clarissa fully comprehends this statement, vida explores whether such a revision is, in fact, possible.

It is commonly supposed that people have to go somewhere other than where they habitually are in order to find. Let the northern lights erase your name the book trail. Lapland of course is the mythical land of the santa claus, north of the arctic circle and the story is set in finland, norway and finmark among the aboriginal sami tribe. Feb 29, 2008 let the northern lights erase your name is a book as lyrical in its content as its title. On the day of her fathers funeral, twentyeightyearold clarissa iverton discovers that he wasnt her biological father after all. Let the northern lights erase your name vendela vida e. The author chose winter in lapland for the time and setting of her book. Vendela vidas let the northern lights erase your name has been on my toread list for quite some time now. The book was first published on 2 january 2007 by ecco press. Because this project is categorized as in development, the data is only available on imdbpro and is subject to change. The one person she feels she can trust, her fiance, pankaj, has just revealed a terrible and life. Release dates 0 also known as aka 0 release dates it looks like we dont have any release dates for this title yet. Read let the northern lights erase your name a novel by vendela vida available from rakuten kobo. Let the northern lights erase your name by vendela vida.

Fleeing her fiance in ny, she travels north of the arctic circle, to lapland, in search of her real father and the mother who mysteriously abandoned her as a child. Let the northern lights erase your name is a book as lyrical in its content as its title. Let the northern lights erase your name book by vendela vida. Like that novel, let the northern lights erase your name is deceptively slim and easy to read, its intricacy tucked into small phrases try to recognize. Let the northern lights erase your name by vendela vida books. Vendela vida, let the northern lights erase your name. Let the northern lights erase your name is a novel written by vendela vida. Wed love you to buy this book, and hope you find this page convenient in locating a place of purchase. Dec 31, 2006 a sami shaman who turns out not to be her father tells her of the northern lights, we believe they are our ancestors. Let the northern lights erase your name by vendela. Linn ullmanns the cold song is a haunting novel about all the ways we endeavor to love and be loved, and the many mistakes we can make while trying. More so perhaps because it is largely set in a part of the world which is rarely written about lapland. Mar 12, 2020 let the northern lights erase your name is simply an incredibly welltold, wellconceived story.

Let the northern lights erase your name set in lapland. In both books, a heroine learns a dramatic family secret. Published by user, years ago last night i began this book at 8. Let the northern lights erase your name is kind of a coldclimate twin of the divers clothes lie empty.

When i finished reading it, i remained in a state of awe. She received the 2007 kate chopin writing award and is a founding coeditor of the believer magazine and the editor of the believer book of writers talking to writers. Vida has created of a 29yearold womans unexpected journey to north finland and into her own past is so quirky and original in its setting and twists, yet completely believable in its main characters superhuman attempt to. Upon his death, clarissa, now twentyeight, discovers he wasnt her father at all. Excerpt from let the northern lights erase your name kcrw. With her new novel, the lovers, former kate chopin writing award winner vida tells a powerful and beautiful tale of a widow returning alone to the site of her honeymoon in turkey, and her subsequent journeys through her past. Mar 03, 2007 let the northern lights erase your name by vendela vida. This month the mc book club considers one womans search for her father, her mother and her own identity in let the northern lights erase your. Vendela vidas let the northern lights erase your name follows a sour but funny heroine through the snows of lapland, writes jenny diski. Let the northern lights erase your name tries to be many things a thriller, a meditation on identity and language, a family romance gone wrong, a lapland travelogue. Vendela vida is the author of and now you can go and let the northern lights erase your name, both of which were new york times notable books of the year. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and now clarissa is alone and adrift.

Jan 02, 2008 vendela vida is the author of and now you can go and let the northern lights erase your name, both of which were new york times notable books of the year. In both books, learning the secret causes her to set off alone for distant locales without letting anyone know where shes going. Vendela vida is the awardwinning author of four books, including let the northern lights erase your name and the lovers, and a founding editor of the believer magazine. Let the northern lights erase your name cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Feb 08, 2008 let the northern lights erase your name welcome back. It is commonly supposed that people have to go somewhere other than. The sami poet marry ailoniedia somby wrote the poem let the northern lights erase your name from which the book takes its title. Let the northern lights erase your name vendela vida paperback. I think part of the reason it stuck with me was the lure of the title ive always been drawn to the aurora borealis and the novels title, taken from a poem by marry. Oct, 2009 in 2007, vendela vidas novel let the northern lights erase your name was a new york times notable book of the year. Vendela vida quotes author of the divers clothes lie empty. Let the northern lights erase your name is a moving pageturner that i enthusiastically recommend. The hunt for himand the resumption of a search for her motherlead clarissa to far.

Let the northern lights erase your name quotes by vendela vida. The last book i read was let the northern lights erase your name as an ebook from my local library. Jan 12, 2007 let the northern lights erase your name by vendela vida, ecco, 240 pp. Vendela vida is the awardwinning author of four books, including let the northern lights erase your nameand the lovers, and a founding editor of the believer magazine. Aug, 2012 vendela vidas let the northern lights erase your name has been on my toread list for quite some time now. Let the northern lights erase your name vendela vida ebook. For additional info about let the northern lights erase your name such as project notes, plot summary and industry news, visit imdbpro. The blond bus drivers name tag said ari, but he told me, the only passenger on the bus, that his name was.

Its suspenseful and beautifully written and so absorbing that i could not put it down. Having read it in one day, i consider it to be a quick read. There, under the magic of the northern lights, clarissa finds out a great deal some information she expected other she did not. Olivia emerges rather unexpectedly from the middle of it all, a comic invention of real energy and scope.

Let the northern lights erase your name by vendela vida, ecco, 240 pp. Let the northern lights erase your name quotes showing 14 of 4 people pretend things didnt happen. Excerpt from let the northern lights erase your name. Mar 12, 2020 vendela vida is the awardwinning author of four books, including let the northern lights erase your name and the lovers, and a founding editor of the believer magazine. Like recently, everything around me felt familiar yet amiss, like the first time you ride in the back seat of your own car. In 2007, vendela vidas novel let the northern lights erase your name was a new york times notable book of the year. Im not sure what took me so long to get to it, or what source recommended the novel in the first place. A founding editor of the believer magazine, she lives in northern california with her husband and two children. This month the mc book club considers one womans search for her father, her mother and. Let the northern lights erase your name book, 2007. The name tag belonged to his twin brother, for whom he was filling in would i please not tell anybody about that, he asked. Vendela vida, author of the lovers and let the northern lights erase your name on the cold song. Let the northern lights erase your name ebook by vendela vida.

Let the northern lights erase your name ebook by vendela. At the age of 28, clarissa inverton finds herself alone. A place most people havent visited but the real setting here is inside the mind of the protagonist a 20 year old who is on the search for her biological father. At the beginning of vendela vidas second novel, let the northern lights erase your name, clarissa ivertons mother informs her that she was named clarissa in order to rewrite history. Let the northern lights erase your name plot summary imdb. Let the northern lights erase your name abandoned, a. At the age of 28, clarissa inverton finds herself alone in the world. B0028n73b6 let the northern lights erase your name a novel.

Let the northern lights erase your name is simply an incredibly welltold, wellconceived story. Like recently, everything around me felt familiar yet amiss, like the first time you ride in. Vendela vida, author of the lovers and let the northern. Vendela vida is the awardwinning author of five books including and now you can go, let the northern lights erase your name, and the lovers. A young womans sudden identity crisis propels her to the isolated reaches of lapland in vidas powerful second novel. Let the northern lights erase your name the new yorker. Readers questions about let the northern lights erase your name.