The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

Publisher Marketing: In Vendela Vida's taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a women travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, the women is robbed of her wallet and passport all of her money and identification. Though the police investigate, the women senses an undercurrent of complicity between the hotel staff and the authorities she knows she'll never regain her possessions. Stripped of her identity, she feels burdened by the crime yet strangely liberated by her sudden freedom to be anyone she chooses. A chance encounter with a movie producer leads to a job posing as a stand-in for a well-known film star. The star reels her in deeper, though, and soon she's inhabiting the actress's skin off-set too going deeper into the Casablancan night and further from herself. And so continues a strange and breathtaking journey full of unexpected turns, an adventure in which the woman finds herself moving further and further away from the person she once was. Told with vibrant, lush detail and a wicked sense of humor, The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty is part literary mystery, part psychological thriller an unforgettable novel that explores free will, power, and a woman's right to choose not her past, perhaps her present, but certainly her future. This is Vendela Vida's most assured and ambitious novel yet. Review Citations: Booklist 05/15/2015 pg. 22 (EAN 9780062110930, Other) - *Starred Review Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2015 pg. 71 (EAN 9780062110916, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2015 (EAN 9780062110916, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 04/27/2015 (EAN 9780062110916, Hardcover) Booklist 05/15/2015 pg. 22 (EAN 9780062110916, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Contributor Bio:  Vida, Vendela VENDELA VIDA is the award-winning author of four books, most recently Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Lovers, and a founding editor of Believer magazine. She is also the co-editor of Always Apprentices, a collection of interviews with writers, and Confidence or the Appearance of Confidence, a collection of interviews with musicians. She has written a number of screenplays, and is currently developing her novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name into a film with German director Eva Weber. Contributor Bio:  Sands, Xe XE SANDS is a published audiobook narrator with more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration and performance. From poignant young adult fiction to powerful first-person narrative, Sands characterizations are rich and expressive and her narrations evocative and intimate.