Bücher von Vendela Vida

Written in the key of Greta Gerwig's Ladybird, We Run the Tides unravels the tense friendships of a tight-knit group of self-obsessed teenage girls, who, through a small misunderstanding, are forced to confront the secrets they keep and the lies they tell...

Die Straßen von Sea Cliff gehören ihnen - Eulabee und ihrer Freundin Maria Fabiola. Sie klettern mutig über Klippen, lärmen selbstbewusst durch das Viertel und manipulieren charmant ihre Eltern. Doch nachdem sie der Polizei zwei Versionen der Szene mit dem fremden Mann erzählen, bröckelt nicht nur ihre Freundschaft: Eulabee wird zur Ausgestoßenen, und dann ist Maria Fabiola auf einmal verschwunden.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff's homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters?as well as the upscale all-girls' school they attend. One day, walking to school with friends, they witness a horrible act?or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola's sudden disappearance?a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths. Suspenseful and poignant, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida's masterful portrait of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre?tech boom San Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the center of this story of innocence lost, the pain of too much freedom, and the struggle to find one's authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth, We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth, in all its beauty and confusion.

From the acclaimed author of the 2007 New York Times Notable Book Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name comes a stunning novel about the love between husbands and wives, mothers and children.Twenty-eight years ago, Peter and Yvonne honeymooned in the beautiful coastal village of Datça, Turkey. Now Yvonne is a widow, her twin children grown. Hoping to immerse herself in memories of a happier time?as well as sand and sea?Yvonne returns to Datça. But her plans for a restorative week in Turkey are quickly complicated. Instead of comforting her, her memories begin to trouble her.Overwhelmed by the past and unexpectedly dislocated by the environment, Yvonne clings to a newfound friendship with Ahmet, a local boy who makes his living as a shell collector. But a devastating accident upends her delicate peace and throws her life into chaos?and her sense of self into turmoil.With the crystalline voice and psychological nuance for which her work has been so celebrated, Vendela Vida has crafted another unforgettable heroine in a stunningly beautiful and mysterious landscape.

On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iver-ton discovers that he wasn't her biological father after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and her fiancé has just revealed a life-changing secret to her. Alone and adrift, Clarissa travels to mystical Lapland, where she believes she'll meet her real father. There, at a hotel made of ice, Clarissa is confronted with the truth about her mother's his-tory, and must make a decision about how--and where--to live the rest of her life.

In a fascinating look at how young women are coming of age in America, Vendela Vida's Girls on the Verge explores a variety of rituals that girls have adapted or created in order to leave their childhoods behind. Vida doesn't just observe the rituals, she actively participates in them, going as far as spending a week at UCLA to experience rush-she emerges a Tri-Delt. She also goes to Miami to learn about the "quince" (the Latin American celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday), to Houston to take part in a debutante ball, to Los Angeles and San Francisco to talk to female gang members, to Salem, Massachusetts, to interview a coven of witches, and to Las Vegas to watch young brides take the plunge-some of them in drive-through wedding chapels. With humor, insight, and illuminating detail, she explores girls' struggles to forge an identity and secure a sense of belonging through various rituals-rituals that they embrace without necessarily understanding the comforts they seek or the repercussions of their often all-too-adult choices.

Vendela Vida erzählt ein subtiles Drama über Freundschaft und Verrat, Sexualität und Lügen im San Francisco der 80er Jahre. "Scharfsinnig, traurig, überraschend und fesselnd. Und außerdem lustig." Nick HornbyEulabee und ihrer charismatischen Freundin Maria Fabiola gehören die Straßen von Sea Cliff, wo die Häuser prachtvoll und die Strände wild sind. Morgens gehen sie im Faltenrock zur Mädchenschule, nachmittags spüren sie ihre Macht, wenn sie frei und furchtlos über die Klippen rennen. Eines Morgens werden sie von einem Mann in einem weißen Auto angehalten. Er fragt nach der Uhrzeit, Eulabee schaut auf ihre Swatch. Doch was danach passiert, darin sind sich die Mädchen uneinig. Angefasst habe der Mann sich, erzählt Maria Fabiola der Polizei. Eulabee widerspricht ihr - und wird plötzlich zur Ausgestoßenen.Vor der Kulisse der sich verändernden Landschaft von San Francisco erzählt Vendela Vida von der Grausamkeit der Jugend, von verlorener Unschuld, Lügen und Verrat.