"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.