Lidia Yuknavitch is an author whose works delve deeply into the body, trauma, and the search for identity. Her prose, often raw and poetic, penetrates complex human experiences with unflinching honesty. Yuknavitch focuses on themes of survival, womanhood, and the perils of storytelling, offering readers an intense and transformative reading experience.
Exploring the concept of war through a discursive lens, this book examines late 20th Century novels that reinterpret and demilitarize traditional narratives of conflict. By analyzing these literary works, it challenges conventional perceptions of violence and invites readers to reconsider the implications of war in contemporary society. The focus on allegory reveals deeper themes and critiques, offering a fresh perspective on the complexities of warfare and its representation in literature.
This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of extreme grief on a young woman’s developing sexuality that some define as untraditional because of her attraction to both men and women. Her emergence as a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey of addiction, self-destruction, and ultimately survival that finally comes in the shape of love and motherhood.
The author explores the status of being a misfit as something to be embraced, and social misfits as being individuals of value who have a place in society, in a work that encourages people who have had difficulty finding their way to pursue their goals.
LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Bustle and Lit HubA fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her characters are scarred by the unchecked hungers of others and themselves, yet determined to find salvation within lives that can feel beyond their control. In novels such as The Small Backs of Children and The Book of Joan, she has captivated readers with stories of visceral power. Now, in Verge, she offers a shard-sharp mosaic portrait of human resilience on the margins.The landscape of Verge is peopled with characters who are innocent and imperfect, wise and endangered: an eight-year-old black-market medical courier, a restless lover haunted by memories of his mother, a teenage girl gazing out her attic window at a nearby prison, all of them wounded but grasping toward transcendence. Clear-eyed yet inspiring, Verge challenges us with moments of uncomfortable truth, even as it urges us to place our faith not in the flimsy guardrails of society but in the memories held--and told--by our own individual bodies.
A contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud's famous case study from the
internationally bestselling author of The Book of Joan. Introduced by Chuck
Palahniuk
From the visionary author of the internationally bestselling The Book of Joan
comes an epic novel tracing the construction of a colossal statue - and the
lives of two centuries of immigrants navigating its turbulent wake
A fiercely provocative novel, exploring the treacherous borders between war
and sex, love and art, from the author of The Book of Joan and The Chronology
of Water
Lidia Yuknavitch erzählt in ihrem Memoir „In Wasser geschrieben“ von ihrem turbulenten Leben, geprägt von Missbrauch, Sucht und Verlust. Sie beschreibt ihre Reise als Außenseiterin, die Kreativität und Liebe findet. Das Buch thematisiert Sexualität, Gewalt und die Auswirkungen extremer Trauer auf die Identität einer Frau.
