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Vendela Vida reads The Lovers
08/17/2010 7:30 pm
08/17/2010 9:00 pm
Vendela Vida, author of the critically acclaimed novel And Now You Can Go, founding co-editor of The Believer magazine, and screenplay writer (with husband Dave Eggers) of the film Away We Go, has written an engrossing new novel. "Vida's The Lovers is a spare and haunting meditation on how travel can bring us full circle back to the place from which we have started. I read it over two days and dreamed about it the second night," writes Francine Prose.
Bookshop staff backs up Prose's praise all the way, and we're adding this as a "must read" for book groups. The plot follows Yvonne, a middle-aged woman suddenly widowed, as she journeys to Turkey to revisit the place of her honeymoon. In taut and seemingly spare language, Vida brings us hauntingly close to Yvonne's world, where suddenly everything is no longer what it was. When Yvonne befriends a young boy on her travels, the loss of her husband breaks through, and what happens next left us with our hearts pounding. This is a tale that beckons us to wonder if escape is possible in a world where human relationships rest in connection, love, and letting go.
We are delighted to welcome Ms. Vida to Bookshop Santa Cruz and hope that you'll join us for this reading and signing.
