She abandons her fiancé and starts journey to Helsinki, Finland The novel was largely appreciated by reviewers and critics for its emotional complexity and dark humour.

The magazine's critical summary reads: "The novel’s ending will satisfy most readers, although two reviewers found it predictable".

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name tries to be many things - a thriller, a meditation on identity and language, a family romance gone wrong, a Lapland travelogue.

Olivia emerges rather unexpectedly from the middle of it all, a comic invention of real energy and scope.The New York Times found—[2] Vida sustains a bleakly comic aspect of this excruciatingly sad story, as Clarissa blunders around the Arctic Rim, accosting strangers in the manner of that hapless lost chick in P. D. Eastman’s children’s classic, “Are You My Mother?”...

Take away the exotic setting and circumstance and you have a relentlessly believable story of a child’s futile struggle to, well, “be loved.” This article about a 2000s novel is a stub.