The Chronology of Water

· Canongate Books
4.0
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304
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From the debris of her troubled early life, Lidia Yuknavitch weaves an astonishing tale of survival. It is a life that navigates, and transcends, abuse, addiction, self-destruction and the crushing loss of a stillborn child.

A kind of memoir that is also a paean to the pursuit of beauty, self-expression, desire – for men and women – and the exhilaration of swimming, The Chronology of Water lays a life bare.

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4.0
3 reviews
T Bee
12 May 2020
In all honesty, it started off great, amazing, engrossing, imnotputtingthisdown. Then it crashed. I found the writer grating, her voice I lost in my own irritation. I found myself thinking how affected she sounded. I just lost the desire to read further, but I did. Would I rec this book? No.
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About the author

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children and Dora: A Headcase. Her highly acclaimed memoir, The Chronology of Water, was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for Creative Non-fiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Awards' Readers' Choice. Her TED talk, 'The Beauty of Being a Misfit', has been watched over two million times. Lidia teaches in Oregon, where she lives with her husband and their son. She is a very good swimmer.

@LidiaYuknavitch | lidiayuknavitch.net

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