The Lovers (Ecco) Vendela Vida returns to Skylight Books to read from and sign her new novel, The Lovers. Vendela Vida is the author of Girls on the Verge, a non-fiction investigation of the rituals that help American girls develop their adult identities, and two novels, the New York Times Notable Book Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and And Now You Can Go. She is co-editor of The Believer magazine, and lives in Northern California with her husband and children. Photo of the author by Chloe Aftel.