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AVAILABLE NOW WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD :: The frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal ::

Drawing from her complex past — her father's abuse, her relationship with her disabled mother, the loss of her child, and her sexual relationships with men and women — Lidia Yuknavitch has harnessed the power of literature and storytelling to reframe her memories. As an author and teacher, she uses this creative insight to transform her wounds into a source of emotional growth and restoration.

By turns candid and lyrical, stoic and forgiving, blunt and evocative, Reading the Waves reframes memory to show how crucial this process can be to gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Praise for Reading The Waves

“What makes us return to Yuknavitch again and again is her searing honesty, wide-open compassion, and sensual engagement with this earthly realm. Reading the Waves is brilliant storytelling by one of our most adventurous creatives. It is an investigation into how our stories must shift to accommodate each age, each generat

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Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch is the national bestselling author of the novels THE BOOK OF JOAN and THE SMALL BACKS OF CHILDREN, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, as well as the Reader's Choice Award, the novel DORA: A Headcase, and a critical book on war and narrative, ALLEGORIES OF VIOLENCE. Her widely acclaimed memoir, THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. THE MISFIT'S MANIFESTO, a book based on her recent TED Talk, was published by TED Books, and her new collection of fiction, VERGE, was released in 2020. Lidia’s newest novel is THRUST, and her latest memoir is READING THE WAVES.

Books by Lidia Yuknavitch

Reading the Waves: A Memoir

by Lidia Yuknavitch- Memoir, Nonfiction

Thrust

by Lidia Yuknavitch- Dystopian, Fiction

Verge: Stories

by Lidia Yuknavitch- Fiction, Short Stories

The Small Backs of Children

by Lidia Yuknavitch- Fiction

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In 1983 my daughter died the day she was born. From her I became a writer.

My writing is informed, deformed, and reformed by these things:

  1. I think gender and sexuality are territories of possibility. Never mind what we've been told or what the choices appear to be. Inside artistic practice the possibilities open back up.

  2. I think narrative is quantum.

  3. I think the writer is a locus through which intensities pass.

  4. I think literature is that which fights back against the oppressive scripts of socialization and good citizenship.

  5. I think the space of making art is freedom of being.

  6. I think things that happen to us are true. Writing is a whole other body.

  7. I believe in art the way other people believe in god.

  8. I have had lots of jobs. Some of my favorites were being on an all male house painting crew, because you could see and touch your labor and it had concrete meaning and I could drink beer, pee standing up, and fart anytime I wanted; seasonal farm work like picking basil and fruit because I got to be outside and meet cool people; working on the ro

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