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- ISBN 9781836750338
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Akoya Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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‘What if we could read our own past, our memories, even our bodies, as if they too were books open to endless interpretation?’
Haunted by her father’s abuse, her complicated dynamic with her disabled mother and the death of her child, Lidia Yuknavitch revisits her past with an author’s gaze. At the age of sixty, her outlook on herself has changed. She wonders differently, remembers differently. She comes to discover that – like any narrative – her memories are open to interpretation, to being reimagined from different perspectives. And as Yuknavitch rewrites and reclaims her early life, she unburdens herself of old wounds and alters her future.
Lidia Yuknavitch is the bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children and Dora: A Headcase, and of the memoirs The Chronology of Water and Reading the Waves. 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 Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
