{"product_id":"divers-clothes-lie-empty-9780062110947","title":"Diver's Clothes Lie Empty","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eLet the Northern Lights Erase Your Name\u003c\/em\u003e comes a taut, spellbinding literary thriller that probes the essence and malleability of identity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Vendela Vida's taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, the woman is robbed of her wallet and passport--all of her money and identification. Stripped of her identity, she feels burdened by the crime yet strangely liberated by her sudden freedom to be anyone she wants to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold with vibrant, lush detail and a wicked sense of humor, \u003cem\u003eThe Diver's Clothes Lie Empty\u003c\/em\u003e is part literary mystery, part psychological thriller--an unforgettable novel that explores free will, power, and a woman's right to choose not her past, perhaps not her present, but certainly her future. This is Vendela Vida's most assured and ambitious novel yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and heartbreakingly familiar. (It's also insanely funny.)\"--Lena Dunham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" Vida's] finest book....With its echoes of Hitchcock and Highsmith, this novel is full of darting pleasures.\"--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVida, Vendela:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVendela Vida\u003c\/strong\u003e is the award-winning author of six books, including \u003cem\u003eLet the Northern Lights Erase Your Name\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Diver's Clothes Lie Empty\u003c\/em\u003e. Her new novel, \u003cem\u003eWe Run the Tides\u003c\/em\u003e, will be published by Ecco on February 9, 2021. She is a founding editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/em\u003e and coeditor of \u003cem\u003eThe Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of interviews with musicians. She was a founding board member of 826 Valencia, the San Francisco writing center for youth, and lives in the Bay Area with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491419590930,"sku":"9780062110947","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2187428b-fd4f-4e24-bbef-27966fd68616.jpg?v=1730540691","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/divers-clothes-lie-empty-9780062110947","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}