num_pages: 272
description: 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 Cliffs homes and beaches its hidden corners and eccentric charactersas well as the upscale all-girls school they attend. One day walking to school with friends they witness a horrible actor do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiolas sudden disappearancea potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths. Suspenseful and poignant We Run the Tides is Vendela Vidas masterful portrait of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pretech 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 ones 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. 
language: English
title: We Run the Tides
publisher: Ecco