Books

Maureen Corrigan says Vendela Vida's novel 'We Run the Tides' "is a tough and exquisite sliver of a short novel whose world I want to remain lost in — and at the same time am relieved to have outgrown."

John Powers says The Copenhagen Trilogy is a story about escape — escape from menial work, escape from traditional female roles, escape from boredom, escape from reality, and escape from the heavy weight of a self that was shaped in her childhood, a time, she writes, that's "long and narrow like a coffin."