Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novels The Book of
Joan,The Small Backs of Children and Dora: A Headcase.
Her highly acclaimed memoir, The Chronology of Water, was a
finalist for a PEN Center USA award for Creative Non-fiction and
winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Awards' Readers' Choice.
Her TED talk, 'The Beauty of Being a Misfit', has been watched over
two million times. Lidia teaches in Oregon, where she lives with
her husband and their son. She is a very good swimmer.
@LidiaYuknavitch | lidiayuknavitch.net
A brutal beauty bomb and a true love song. Rich with story, alive
with emotion, both merciful and utterly merciless, I am forever
altered by every stunning page. This is the book I'm going to press
into everyone's hands for years to come. This is the book I've been
waiting to read all of my life -- CHERYL STRAYED, author of
WILD
Rendered with incredible grace . . . Like water, the memoir takes
on an unpredictable journey . . . This is a story grounded in
womanhood and what it means to be a woman in this world where women
are all too often victimised by those who are meant to care for us
most . . . Entrancing -- ROXANE GAY
Lidia Yuknavitch sets off, fiercely and unrelentingly towards the
deep end. Here are phrases of nerve-jangling beauty, moments of sly
humour and lines so raw you want to look away. The Chronology of
Water is a story about surviving, destroying, becoming, and
ultimately, falling in love with the written word. It's a marvel --
JESS KIDD, author of HIMSELF and THE HOARDER
Something about this story - the goddamn gorgeous language, the raw
power of its brutality - gave me so much comfort and solace. In
Yuknavitch's word embrace, I felt the magic of self-acceptance and
self-love, and the crazy-wonderful beauty of life * * Huffington
Post * *
I've read The Chronology of Water, cover to cover, a dozen
times. I am still reading it. And I will, most likely, return to it
for inspiration and ideas, and out of sheer admiration, for the
rest of my life. The book is extraordinary -- CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Yuknavitch's dark memoir is both exorcism and dissection, a raw and
visceral account with the emphasis on physicality. . . . An
unnerving but bracing memoir about her drive to survive and find
her own voice * * Herald * *
Lidia Yuknavitch is my favorite new writer . . . Genius. The tone
is a combination of high and low, with some of the writing literary
and metaphorical, some conversational and shock-jockey, all of it
fueled by rage and pain and love and art and transformation * * The
Atlantic * *
Bold and highly unconventional . . . Hot, gritty, unrelenting in
its push to dismantle the self and then, somehow, put the self back
together again - gets not just under a reader's skin but seeps all
the way into her bloodstream * * Publishers Weekly * *
I love this book and I am thankful that Lidia Yuknavitch has
written it for me and for everyone else who has ever had to
sometimes kind of work at staying alive. It's about the body,
brain, and soul of a woman who has managed to scratch up through
the slime and concrete and crap of life in order to resurrect
herself. The kind of book Janis Joplin might have written if she
had made it through the fire - raw, tough, pure, more full of love
than you thought possible and sometimes even hilarious. This is the
book Lidia Yuknavitch was put on the planet to write for us --
REBECCA BROWN, author of THE GIFTS OF THE BODY
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