Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name: A Novel

On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iver-ton discovers that he wasn't her biological father after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and her fiancé has just revealed a life-changing secret to her. Alone and adrift, Clarissa travels to mystical Lapland, where she believes she'll meet her real father. There, at a hotel made of ice, Clarissa is confronted with the truth about her mother's his-tory, and must make a decision about how--and where--to live the rest of her life.

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256 pages

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LiziB
Feb 23, 2023
6/10 stars
Very well written -- bleakly funny prose and beautiful descriptions of the various locales -- and an interesting premise where it isn't the narrator who is unreliable, but everyone else in her life. The main character was unlikable, but her history seems to have made that unavoidable.

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