A Memoir: The Chronology of Water
A Memoir
Lidia Yuknavitch
On Sale: 04/12/2011 | $17.95
9780979018831 | Paperback 5-1/2 x 9 | 320 pages
Book Description
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KRISTEN STEWART
From the debris of a troubled early life comes an astonishing tale of survival, a paean to the pursuit of beauty, self-expression, desire—for men and women—and the exhilaration of swimming
THIS IS NOT YOUR MOTHER’S MEMOIR. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful, escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose.
What follows is promiscuous sex with both men and women, some of them famous, and some of it S&M, as Lidia discovers the power of her sexuality to help her forget her pain. The forgetting doesn’t last, though, and it is her hard-earned career as a writer and teacher, and the love of her husband and son, that ultimately create the life she needs to survive.
“I’ve read Ms. Yuknavitch’s book The Chronology of Water, cover to cover, a dozen times . . . The book is extraordinary.” —Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club
Praise For This Book
"Raw, intense, and powerful." —Roxane Gay"Yuknavitch has emerged as a trailblazing literary voice." —Suleika Jaouard
"Yuknavitch drives narrative the way rednecks drive muscle cars. Right across your lawn without respect to boundaries." —Vanessa Veselka
"Yuknavitch’s sex scenes are remarkable among current American novelists, not just for their explicitness but for the way she uses them to pursue questions of agency, selfhood, and the ethical implications of making art." —The New Yorker
"Yuknavitch gives voice to the multitude." —The Washington Post
"Yuknavitch possesses a great well of empathy for misfits and a great passion for radical art." —The Boston Globe
"Yuknavitch’s words are incantations." —Elle
"In Yuknavitch’s hands, words are both swords and feathers . . . She writes with a sensibility that is both blunt and empathic, as if to open the reader’s heart and make it bleed." —Ms. Magazine
"Yuknavitch is one of the most celebrated contemporary writers." —Electric Literature
