{"product_id":"reading-the-waves-isbn-9780593713051","title":"Reading the Waves","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I believe our bodies are carriers of experience,\" Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir \u003ci\u003eReading the Waves\u003c\/i\u003e. \"I mean to ask if there is a way to read my own past differently, using what I have learned from literature: how stories repeat and reverberate and release us from the tyranny of our mistakes, our traumas, and our confusions.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on her background -- her father's abuse, her complicated dynamic with her disabled mother, the death of her child, her sexual relationships with men and women -- and her creative life as an author and teacher, Yuknavitch has come to understand that by using the power of literature and storytelling to reframe her memories, she can loosen the bonds that have enslaved her emotional growth. Armed with this insight, she allows herself to look with the eye of an artist at the wounds she suffered and come to understand the transformational power this has to restore her soul. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns candid and lyrical, stoic and forgiving, blunt and evocative, \u003ci\u003eReading the Waves \u003c\/i\u003ereframes memory to show how crucial this process  can be to gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eReading the Waves\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“[A] quicksilver, expansive exploration of grief and hauntings.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Provocative and expansive. . . Joy, sorrow, rage, fear, guilt, lust, adoration — it’s all there in equal parts. The book empowers us to consider: When we look back at our pasts, how comfortable are we with seeing who we really were and embracing that version of ourself, however flawed? Perhaps more important, how do we shed the parts of us we no longer find useful to become something new?\u003cb\u003e\"—\u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReading the Waves\u003c\/i\u003e dives deep into Yuknavitch’s history with violence and trauma to deliver a resonate message of storytelling’s power to reframe our memories and shape our future. Perfect for readers and writers alike, this memoir is a testament to our ability to learn and heal through the stories we choose to tell.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Yuknavitch reminds us, through the ordinary act of living, of resisting, of storytelling, we can put old pain down. New stories, different ones, are going to emerge. We have the power to reshape ourselves.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Alta Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Reading Lidia Yuknavitch is like taking in a painting. Everything in her novels and memoirs appears before you at once, and you’re free to pick up whatever threads pull you. And they will pull you . . . This [is] a trip into her past to reframe and complicate the sea that is her story.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e — The Portland Monthly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReading the Waves\u003c\/i\u003e is another no-bullshit Yuknavitch memoir with a strengthened maturity alongside the grace and curiosity of an artist.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWillamette Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Another bracing, daring memoir . . . In many ways a book-length ode to the power of craft, Yuknavitch continues on with the legacy she’s creating: the need for brutal honesty to pave the way for a brighter path.\"\u003cb\u003e—LitHub, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch is never just a memoir.\"\u003cb\u003e—Electric Literature, A Most Anticipated Queer Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkable … [T]he author decides to approach her own past like a favorite book, hoping this approach might ‘loosen’ those memories’ grip on her psyche today. The eclectic results won’t just move those who already follow [Yuknavitch], but will inspire readers to revisit their own lives with as much care and creativity.\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBustle \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Stunning, genre-bending self-portrait…With a fiercely feminist outlook and moody, evocative prose that never tilts into preciousness, Yuknavitch delivers a gorgeous ode to the grunt work of self-discovery. It’s a major achievement.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Publishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"In fiction and memoir alike, Lidia Yuknavitch impresses with her audacious subject matters... This vibrant work of self-revelation and -mythologizing is ideal for fans of Pam Houston and Rebecca Solnit.\"\u003cb\u003e —Shelf Awareness, starred review\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At turns emotional and darkly hilarious … this memoir is rich ground and a magnificent narrative about memory, trauma, and healing. Fans of genre-bending or lyrical memoir will enjoy this multilayered meditation leveraging Yuknavitch's creativity, thoughtfulness, and sense of wonder.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brilliant, unflinching, and written with the same heady, literary sophistication as Yuknavitch’s novels. Compounded by real moments of narrative vulnerability, this memoir is as much an act of dismembering as it is of remembering.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A noted writer and teacher explores the uses of memoir to recast and heal the wounds of the past. . . [\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading the Waves\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis] full of the messy, moving, in-your-face inspiration and storytelling for which Yuknavitch is beloved.\" \u003cb\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A master class on how to hold your body's stories with tenderness as well as how to let go, \u003ci\u003eReading the Waves\u003c\/i\u003e is a sigh of compassion. This book bleeds empathy in the most vulnerable and profound of ways. It’s gorgeous.” \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eStephanie Land, author of \u003ci\u003eMaid\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eClass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reading the Waves \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis electrifying. In it, Lidia Yuknavitch interrogates memory, both as an act and a concept—remembering becomes a process of re-membering, of revivifying and reassembling a moment, a story, or a body. Yuknavitch invites us to dive deep into the waters of grief and imagination, love and violence, then guides us back up to the surface where we breathe a little freer and can see both the possibilities of the past and future horizons anew. Yuknavitch is a literary renegade, exploding the borders of genre and radically reimagining the stories we carry as acts of resistance.” \u003cb\u003e—Suleika Jaouad, author of \u003ci\u003eBetween Two Kingdoms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What makes us return to Yuknavitch again and again is her searing honesty, wide-open compassion, and sensual engagement with this earthly realm. \u003ci\u003eReading the Waves\u003c\/i\u003e 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 generation, even as they remain mythically rooted in the ancient archetypal shapes of human transformation. This is a book you will return to again and again for the wild astuteness of its wisdom.”—\u003cb\u003eJoy Harjo, 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Yuknavitch is a lighthouse, strobing her insistent truth across any distance. I have learned so much from her about storytelling, survival, and the ways that tenderness and strength are siblings. I’ll read anything she writes.”—\u003cb\u003eMelissa Febos, author of \u003ci\u003eGirlhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLidia Yuknavitch\u003c\/b\u003e is the nationally bestselling author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThrust\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Joan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Small Backs of Chil\u003c\/i\u003e­dren, and \u003ci\u003eDora: A Headcase\u003c\/i\u003e, and of the memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Chronology of Water\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfic­tion. 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