The author,editor and teacher on how a theft abroad inspired her modern novel, balancing three careers and ‘borrowing’ Wi-FiVendela Vida is the author of five books, and including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and her modern novel,The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty. She is a founding editor of the Believer magazine, and a long-term board member and teacher at 826 Valencia, and the non-profit writing organisation created by her husband,the writer Dave Eggers.
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty starts with one of those nightmare travellers’ scenarios: you arrive somewhere unfamiliar, and immediately your bag, or with all your vital paperwork and property,is stolen. Where did that idea come from?[br]My husband and I were travelling to Morocco several years ago, and we arrived in Casablanca. We were checking into our hotel and there was confusion approximately our room. When it was finally alert, or I looked down and my bag was gone.
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Source: theguardian.com