{"product_id":"we-run-the-tides-a-novel-isbn-9780062936233","title":"We Run the Tides: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeenage\u003cbr\u003eEulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea\u003cbr\u003eCliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff’s\u003cbr\u003ehomes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters—as well as the\u003cbr\u003eupscale all-girls’ school they attend. One day, walking to school with friends,\u003cbr\u003ethey witness a horrible act—or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently\u003cbr\u003edisagree on what happened, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola’s\u003cbr\u003esudden disappearance—a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and\u003cbr\u003ethreatens to expose unspoken truths.         \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuspenseful\u003cbr\u003eand poignant, \u003cem\u003eWe Run the Tides \u003c\/em\u003eis Vendela Vida’s masterful portrait of\u003cbr\u003ean inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre–tech boom San\u003cbr\u003eFrancisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the\u003cbr\u003ecenter of this story of innocence lost, the pain of too much freedom, and the\u003cbr\u003estruggle to find one’s authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Run the Tides \u003c\/em\u003eis both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the\u003cbr\u003ewonders of youth, in all its beauty and confusion. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“The young narrator of Vendela Vida’s new novel is cast out of her friend crew (For what? For nothing) at the moment she and the girls around her are just beginning to understand the power they hold, and how to wield it. There’s violence lurking here, but also humor (it’s funny!), also love. This is one of the best novels about girlhood and female friendship I’ve ever read.”    - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I didn't want it to end.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Stoppard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The dreamy yearning and turmoil of youth are evoked here so vividly as to seem supernaturally conjured.  However long ago you were a teenager, \u003cem\u003eWe Run the Tides\u003c\/em\u003e will bring the quandaries and sensations right back.  Vendela Vida has written a novel of absorbing, exquisite economy and percipience.  She has also written an intimate allegory of our unraveling tether to truth.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa Halliday, author of Asymmetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The girls in this book are everything, all of us: shape-shifters and outcasts, predators and prey, they lean into and away from the world that claims to know them. Vendela Vida is an astoundingly good writer and the ideas she’s wrestling with in these pages—about sexuality and seeing, storytelling and identity—are profound.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDanzy Senna, author of New People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"We Run the Tides\u003c\/em\u003e is smart, perceptive, elegant, sad, surprising and addictive. And it’s also FUNNY. Who knew that you could combine all of those qualities into one slim volume? Not many writers, that’s for sure. I loved every single page, and was sorry when I had to say goodbye to Eulabee and her family.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNick Hornby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A]n engaging, intelligent story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vida populates her stories with liars, runaways, the reckless — those most adept at reconfiguring their appearances, those caught in the process of becoming. She is excellent at writing teenagers, who try on and discard identities as quickly as the days pass. . . . A nod to Edith Wharton. . . . Detailed and vibrant . . . As much a novel of girlhood vulnerability as it is a story fortification and fear.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eWe Run the Tides\u003c\/em\u003e, author Vendela Vida has crafted a coming-of-age tale replete with friendship, sexuality and a good dose of mystery. Vida’s writing shines as she captures this exciting, vulnerable and sometimes worrisome time when a girl is puzzling out her position in the world, who she wants to be, and how that fits with the person others have decided she already is.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vendela Vida crafts a tense tale of girlhood, privilege, and innocence.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] perceptive tale of losing innocence and finding one’s true self. As consistently surprising as it is hauntingly resonant (not to mention often very funny), Vida’smchronicle of female friendship is a fast, addictive read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[T]here’s something naughty, almost gleeful about this nostalgia-soaked portrayal of pre-tech-boom San Francisco that keeps the pages turning.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Exhilarating, maddening, thoroughly entertaining novel…irresistible voice…With its tangible, tactile details peppered throughout and super-smart,  quirky Eulabee at it’s helm, \u003cem\u003eWe Run the Tides\u003c\/em\u003e is deceptively sweet—and as addictive as candy.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The year is probably too young to make this kind of pronouncement, but the new novel I know I'm going to be rereading in the coming months and spending a lot of time thinking about is Vendela Vida's \u003cem\u003eWe Run the Tides. \u003c\/em\u003eIt's a tough and exquisite sliver of a short novel whose world I want to remain lost in.  . . . [A] spectacular narrator . . . [A] wonder of a novel.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vida captures the unstable sensation of early adolescent reality, that period teetering between childhood and young adulthood in which outlandish lies can seem weirdly plausible and basic facts totally alien…the affectionate specificity of the portrait she offers is one of the book’s real pleasures...Vida’s San Francisco is ramshackle and eccentric, home to heiresses but also tide pools of counterculture backwash.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"We Run the Tides\u003c\/em\u003e is knowing, sometimes funny and always propulsive as it examines girlhood, friendship, and the strong pull of the past.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeg Wolitzer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“From the first page, \u003cem\u003eWe Run the Tides\u003c\/em\u003e is captivating. A story about girlhood, friendship, and the pathologies of innocence and victimhood, it reminds me of Ferrante’s \u003cem\u003eMy Brilliant Friend\u003c\/em\u003e, but set against the furious backdrop of San Francisco’s Sea Cliff neighborhood. Its scope, ferocity, and main characters are unforgettable. Vendela Vida is masterful at constructing the nuances and complications of how young girls become aware of their power, and the choices they make once they wield it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSally Wen Mao, author of Oculus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Set in a pre-tech boom San Francisco that feels moody, foreboding, and magical, this enigmatic tale of adolescent friendship, a disappearance, and coming-of-age is smart, sly, and as knowing about the mind and heart of a teenage girl as an Elena Ferrante novel.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Vida, whose polished and incisive prose is in the Didion mode, inflects this droll and sensitive coming-of-age tale . . . with eviscerating social commentary. A nimble and arresting drama about the spell cast by beauty, the compulsion to lie, the valor of forthrightness, and the inevitability of the inexplicable.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If you can’t get enough ’80s nostalgia (and I count myself among you), Vendela Vida’s latest will scratch that itch. In this tense story of teen female friendship and betrayal in the pre–tech bro years of San Francisco, BFFs Eulabee and Maria Fabiola have a dramatic falling out that’s followed by Maria Fabiola’s disappearance. Early readers have been responding with ALL CAPS–level excitement; my curiosity is suitably piqued. “  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] atmospheric, glistering novel of adolescence and innocence lost...Vida perfectly captures the panicky feeling inherent to adolescence, of wanting to know everything that's going on, but being aware that you'll probably only ever scratch the surface of the truth.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889401589989,"sku":"NP9780062936233","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062936233.jpg?v=1730231172","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/we-run-the-tides-a-novel-isbn-9780062936233","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}