Vendela Vida has worked at the Paris Review and the New York Review of Books. She is the author of the non-fiction book Girls on the Verge. She and Dave Eggers have recently opened a writing lab for teenagers in San Francisco.
The First Lady of Alt Lit * Vogue * Consistently a pleasure to read * Independent on Sunday * A sneakily engaging and ultimately astounding first novel... A delight from the first page to the last * Big Issue * A spare but polished miniature that isn't ashamed to strive for small truths instead of great lumbering ones * New York Times Book Review * Utterly gripping, a book to be read in one sitting * Times Literary Supplement *