RA Alert: THE DIVER’S CLOTHES LIE EMPTY

Screen Shot 2015-07-01 at 10.34.31 AMOn Fresh Air yesterday author Vendela Vida spoke with Terry Gross about her new novel The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty (Harper/Ecco; HighBridge; OverDrive Sample), one of the show’s early summer reading picks.

The novel, about a woman’s unraveling identity, has received admiring reviews in local and national papers, from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Cleveland Plain Dealer to the daily New York Times and the Sunday Book Review.

As a result, holds are spiking in some places and are generally outpacing fairly light ordering.

If you need a way to describe the story, check out these takes:

  • Entertainment Weekly, which gave the book a B+, offers a bang-up summary: “Vida’s twisting, feverish novel may be slim, but it’s full of intrigue, betrayal, and enough mysterious doppelgängers to overwhelm even Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany.”
  • The Huffington Post’s “Bottom Line” says it is for readers “interested in feminist literature, funny stories, and spare plots that’ll make your heart race.”

One Response to “RA Alert: THE DIVER’S CLOTHES LIE EMPTY”

  1. Wendy Bartlett Says:

    Just ordered lots more copies for Cuyahoga. Talking about this one on the radio in August…….if this doesn’t get made in to a movie, I’ll be very surprised!