We Run the Tides

About this book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco TeenageEulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of SeaCliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff'shomes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters--as well as theupscale all-girls' school they attend. One day, walking to school with friends, they witness a horrible act--or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehementlydisagree on what happened, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola'ssudden disappearance--a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community andthreatens to expose unspoken truths. Suspensefuland poignant, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida's masterful portrait ofan inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre-tech 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 one's 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.