"A taut, intricately layered page-turner that looks deeply and fearlessly into matters of profound human concern." -- Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Winner of the Kate Chopin Award
On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iver­ton 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 his­tory and must make a decision about how -- and where -- to live the rest of her life.
"Brilliant." -- The New York Times Book Review
"Vida's terrific new novel is a taut, tense, terse examination of family and identity... [with] the grip and pace of a thriller." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"[A] stirring novel... as alive and fascinating as the brilliant atmospheric phenomenon of its title." -- Chicago Tribune
"Reading this book reminded me... how rarely a writer as precise, artful, and passionate as Vendela Vida comes along." -- George Saunders, Booker Prize-winning author
"[A] tone of dark whimsy suffuses the whole book and accounts for much of its peculiarly biting charm." -- The New York Times Book Review
"Vida gives the icy landscape an eerie, forbidding beauty and her writing has... great emotional acuity." -- The New Yorker
"A luminescent and evocative tale of grief, free of the standard clichés." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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• Publication Date: October 13, 2009
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