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I read Regeneration in 2012, The Eye in the Door last year and The Ghost Road was my first book of 2015. I regret reading these books so far apart. It was a time when Robin Williams showed up at Green Apple Books on Clement Street just to browse. Plus, I remember San Francisco in the 1980s-Baker Beach before Burning Man, before Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey bought side-by-side Sea Cliff mansions. It was a great distraction from ongoing dramas of 2021, including COVID lockdowns and vaccinations and the impeachment narrative in the Capitol. I read We Run the Tides in one intensive session. It’s a nuanced and authentic meditation on teenage friendship (especially among girls), lying, fabricating, overdramatizing, and growing into the concept of consequences. We Run the Tidesis set in her hometown, San Francisco, where she lives now with her husband (Dave Eggers), son, and daughter. 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. 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). 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. |