Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch is the internationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children and Dora: A Headcase, and of the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Pity the small backs of children, he heard her saying. They carry death for us the second they are born.

The Small Backs of Children

Lidia Yuknavitch

We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.

The Chronology of Water

Lidia Yuknavitch

Burning is an art.

The Book of Joan

Lidia Yuknavitch

From the Waterstones vlog: Liv talks The Book of Joan. “It is fiercely feminist, fiercely intelligent - unabashedly so - it’s raw, it’s vital, it’s bubbling and bristling, full of energy and it is absolutely fantastic.”