We Run the Tides : A Novel

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER An achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San FranciscoTeenageEulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of SeaCliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliffshomes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric charactersas well as theupscale all-girls school they attend. One day, walking to school with friends,they witness a horrible actor do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehementlydisagree on what happened, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiolassudden disappearancea potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community andthreatens to expose unspoken truths. Suspensefuland poignant, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vidas masterful portrait ofan inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pretech boom SanFrancisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at thecenter of this story of innocence lost, the pain of too much freedom, and thestruggle to find ones authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth,We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to thewonders of youth, in all its beauty and confusion.