The Lovers
“[Vida’s] third novel is further evidence that she can fashion characters as unpredictable as they are endearing…[The Lovers] is a satisfying, often brilliant portrait of a woman searching for relief from things that will not, she discovers at last with something like acceptance, go away.”
New York Times Book Review
"Vendela Vida has written a riveting and suspenseful novel about an American woman's voyage to self-discovery."
-Joyce Carol Oates
"Stunning. A masterful meditation on grief and love. The Lovers is a sensational novel from one of our finest writers at the height of her craft."
-Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries
In 2007, Vendela Vida's novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 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 and her present.
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