Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name

By Vendela Vida

Subjects: Skönlitteratur, Sami (European people), Literature, Fiction, sagas, Illegitimate children, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Americans, Samer, Identity (Psychology), Fiction, psychological, Amerikaner, Mothers and daughters

Description: 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 fiance 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.