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    Vendela Vida

    Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (Ecco) The possibility that there are those who choose to escape or evade their identities enters our exploration of Vendela Vida's quest-for-identity novel.

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Mar 8, 2007 • 30m Listen

    (Ecco)

    The possibility that there are those who choose to escape or evade their identities enters our exploration of this quest-for-identity novel. In the cold arctic wastes of Lapland, Clarissa searches for her mother and true father. From her desk in California, Vendela Vida asks if these discoveries do, in fact, reveal anything at all.

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