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We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida
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We Run the Tides

A Novel

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Length 6 hours 34 minutes
Language English
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An achingly beautiful and wickedly funny story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance, set in the changing landscape of San Francisco

Teenage Eulabee and her alluring best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy, oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know the ins and outs of the homes and beaches, Sea Cliffā€™s hidden corners and eccentric charactersā€”as well as the swanky all-girlsā€™ school they attend. Their lives move along uneventfully, with afternoon walks by the ocean and weekend sleepovers. Then everything changes. Eulabee and Maria Fabiola have a disagreement about what they did or didnā€™t witness on the way to school one morning, and this creates a schism in their friendship. The rupture is followed by Maria Fabiolaā€™s sudden disappearanceā€”a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens toĀ expose unspoken truths.

Suspenseful and poignant,Ā We Run the TidesĀ is Vendela Vidaā€™s masterpiece depiction ofĀ an inimitableĀ place on the brink of radical transformation. Preā€“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 oneā€™s authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth,Ā We Run the TidesĀ is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth, in all its beauty and confusion.Ā 

Vendela Vida is the award-winning author of six books, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Diverā€™s Clothes Lie Empty. Her new novel, We Run the Tides, will be published by Ecco on February 9, 2021. She is a founding editor of The Believer and coeditor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers and Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence, a collection of interviews with musicians. She was a founding board member of 826 Valencia, the San Francisco writing center for youth, and lives in the Bay Area with her family.

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