A review by liralen
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida

4.0

Chilly and spare, which seems fitting for a story that takes place mostly in Lapland. It's to Lapland that Clarissa goes in search of answers about her past, but answers are few and far between: for every answer she uncovers, there are a dozen new questions. How do you escape your past, when you're not sure what that past is? How do you come to terms with your family, when your family doesn't want to come to terms with you? Clarissa learns things, but not always the things she'd hoped or expected to, and she ends up following in her mother's footsteps.
SpoilerHer mother abandoned the family in order to reinvent herself; Clarissa ends up leaving her fiancé and her home in order to recreate herself and leave her baggage behind.
A dark story in places, but yes, with the Northern Lights as a backdrop.