Reading the Waves - A Memoir

The frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal.

"I believe our bodies are carriers of experience," Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir
Drawing 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. 

By turns candid and lyrical, stoic and forgiving, blunt and evocative,

About the author

Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels Thrust, 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 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfic­tion. She lives in Oregon.

Product details

• Authors: Lidia Yuknavitch, Yuknavitch Lidia
• Publisher: Riverhead
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2025
• EAN: 9780593713051
• ISBN: 978-0-593-71305-1
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth, Memoirs, SELF-HELP / Creativity, Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice, Memory improvement & thinking techniques, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, Memory improvement and thinking techniques, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs