NATIONAL BESTSELLER 

An achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco 

Teenage

Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea

Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff’s

homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters—as well as the

upscale all-girls’ school they attend. One day, walking to school with friends,

they witness a horrible act—or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently

disagree on what happened, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola’s

sudden disappearance—a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and

threatens to expose unspoken truths.        

Suspenseful

and poignant, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida’s masterful portrait of

an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre–tech boom San

Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the

center of this story of innocence lost, the pain of too much freedom, and the

struggle 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 the

wonders of youth, in all its beauty and confusion.