The Lovers

"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.