Vendela Vida Promotes her New Novel

This week in San Francisco, The Believer editor Vendela Vida will be talking up her latest book, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name. The novel details one woman's quest, prompted by her father's death, to shed light on her own past, reconnecting with those she lost and ultimately shedding this past for a new life. While the bulk of this short novel was enthralling, the end was a disappointment. It was almost as if Vida decided to tack on an ending in an attempt at resolution. But the ending she decided upon reached to far into the territory of a new story altogether. But regardless, it's difficult to resist a book with such an enchanting title, apparently drawn from a line by a famous Sami poet.

Vendela Vida will be speaking at Book Passage in Corte Madera this Sunday, January 7 at 4pm; at Books Inc. on Van Ness on Monday the 8th at 7 pm; and at Cody's in Berkeley on Thursday the 11th also at 7 pm.