Books by Lidia Yuknavitch and Complete Book Reviews
Lidia Yuknavitch. Harper, $24.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-238324-2
In this daring novel, Yuknavitch (The Chronology of Water) takes a provocative look at the intimate relationship among love, art, and sex in a group of emotionally scarred artists who want to save one of their own. Written in the voices of...
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Lidia Yuknavitch. Harper, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-238327-3
The future of life on a barren, ravaged Earth is in the hands of a new Joan of Arc in Yuknavitch’s (The Small Backs of Children) muddled novel. After the Wars that battered Earth, the wealthy have withdrawn to CIEL, a floating space platform that’s “
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Lidia Yuknavitch, intro. by Chelsea Cain. Hawthorne (PGW, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (268p) ISBN 978-0-9790188-3-1
The floodgates of Yuknavitch's (Real to Reel) powerful memoir burst open with the birth of her stillborn daughter and from there the events of her life "swim in and out between each other, [w]ithout chronology." Yuknavitch is a former competitive...
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Lidia Yuknavitch, intro. by Chuck Palahniuk. Hawthorne (PGW, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-9834775-7-0
In Yuknavitch’s audacious first novel, equal parts acid-tongued coming-of-age story and feminist retelling of Freud’s most famous case study, Seattle teen Ida goes toe-to-toe with her new shrink, nicknamed Siggy, recording their conversations (among
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Lidia Yuknavitch. Riverhead, $26 (208p) ISBN 978-0-525-53487-7
In this brilliant collection, Yuknavitch (The Book of Joan) chronicles people outside society’s margins. In “Cusp,” a teenager in rural Texas comes of age while acting as a drug mule at a prison. “The Organ Runner” follows a young girl as she works...
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Lidia Yuknavitch. Riverhead, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-53490-7
The blistering and visionary latest from Yuknavitch (The Book of Joan) follows a time-traveling girl on the run with her father in a bleak near future. Laisvė
, an enchanted and motherless girl, keeps company with worms and whales as she flees with...
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Lidia Yuknavitch. Riverhead, $29 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-71305-1
Novelist Yuknavitch (Thrust) approaches her past “not as facts, but as fictions” in this stunning, genre-bending self-portrait. Drawing inspiration from Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison, Yuknavitch eschews the conventions of traditional memoir to...
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