Soleil

by Vendela Vida

This rare and vintage book is a perfect addition to any bibliophile's collection

Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Vendela Vida is the award-winning author of four books, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Lovers, and a founding editor of The Believer magazine. She is also the co-editor of Always Apprentices, a collection of interviews with writers, and Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence, a collection of interviews with musicians. As a fellow at the Sundance Labs, she developed Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name into a script, which received the Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award. Two of Vida’s novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the year, and she is the winner of the Kate Chopin Award, given to a writer whose female protagonist chooses an unconventional path. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two children, and since 2002 has served on the board of 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring lab for youth.

Reviews

[Jamie Felton · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a small press short story that I picked up and read in ten minutes. Vida has an amazing gift in that she can perfectly describe a character so accurately you feel as though every move or action this character makes is a revelation into his or her psyche. It is the best kind of story where nothing much happens on the surface, rather it all teeming below in a churning mass of unspoken feelings and motives. In getting to know her characters, you are inevitably getting to know the worst and best human traits.