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This isn't a memoir 'about' addiction, abuse, or love: it's a triumphantly unrelenting look at a life buoyed by the power of the written word.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLYI'm also convinced that this bold and highly unconventional book - hot, gritty, unrelenting in its push to dismantle the self and then, somehow, put the self back together again - gets not just under a reader's skin but seeps all the way into her bloodstream.
DEBRA GWARTNEY, THE OREGONIANChosen as one of the 100 Great Nonfiction Books must-read works of narrative nonfiction and journalism.
THE ELECTRIC TYPEWRITERSimply stated: She is important. Read. Her. Now.
MARGARET ELYSIA GARCIA, THE PLUMAS WEEKLYYuknavitch can write a really hot sex scene. It's super sexy, and it's never cheesy or over-the-top or too tame. It's perfect...Yuknavitch's memoir is one of the best books I've ever read.
CASEY REVIEWS, THE LESBRARYI find Yuknavitch's frankness about the emotional and physical experience of being a woman (in sex, in athletic competition, in childbirth) surprising. Not because it offends my sensibilities, but because it affirms them.
DANIELLE DEULEN, ESSAY DAILYThe Chronology of Water... has lately achieved cult status. Lidia Yuknavitch...imparts a visceral power to the experience of lust, a power unmatched in any recent account I can think of.
CLAIRE DEDERER, THE ATLANTICLidia Yuknavitch is my favorite new writer...It's so genius I'm not quite sure how she did it. The tone is a combination of high and low, with some of the writing literary and metaphorical, some conversational and shock-jockey, all of it fueled by rage and pain and love and art and transformation.
VALERIE STIVERS-ISAKOVA, HUFFINGTON POSTThis isn't for everyone. Some will read and be exasperated or disgusted or disbelieving. I get that. I get that chaos and promiscuity and addiction are ugly, messy, and life is too short to waste reading about someone else's tragedy and self-destructive behavior. But something about this story-the goddamn gorgeous language, the raw power of its brutality-gave me so much comfort and solace. In Yuknavitch's word embrace, I felt the magic of self-acceptance and self-love, and the crazy-wonderful beauty of life.
JULIE CHRISTINE JOHNSON, CHALK THE SUNYuknavitch has emerged as a trailblazing literary voice that spans genres and dives deep into themes of gender, sexuality, art, violence, and transcendence. Her work is a refreshing alternative to the hero's journey, offering instead what she calls the "misfit's journey."
SULEIKA JAOUARD, LENNY[The Chronology of Water] is about rage, ecstasy, abuse, appetite, bad decisions and grace. It is one of the most full-throated depictions of being a woman I have ever read.
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