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

3.0

3+ I loved the simplicity of this book. It's a bit unusual for contemporary literary fiction to simply start in one place and move forward in time, but this book does. No jumping around in time. No multiple points of view. No shenanigans. Just the protagonist, moving forward and finding out new information about past events as she goes. The way real life works.

There were also many moments, too, where the writing delighted me. In one scene the protagonist describes holding her purse close to her chest "like an infant," while a woman on another bench cradles her baby "like a purse."

It's not a dramatic or thrilling story, but that's not what I want right now. But Vida held my attention and made me care.