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Title details for Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch - Available

Reading the Waves

A Memoir

by Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch
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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 Reading the Waves. "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."
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, Reading the Waves reframes memory to show how crucial this process  can be to gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves.

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  • Release date

    February 4, 2025

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      • ISBN: 9780593951156
      • File size: 203199 KB
      • Duration: 07:03:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In this gorgeous memoir, bestselling American author Lidia Yuknavitch meanders through her life with the grace of moving water. Her narration, too, mimics the rhythmic lyricism of water. Her voice gently rises and falls like ocean waves as she recounts her complicated relationships with her ex-husband and mother, along with the ways the grief she carries from their deaths reverberates throughout her life. She writes about artistic practice, violence against women, motherhood, messy family legacies, the landscapes of Texas and Oregon, and so much more. Her voice is deep, gentle, and full of emotion; she narrates calmly but with a curiosity about the patterns in her own life and how they relate to the wider world that is catching. A moving performance by a thoughtful and generous writer. L.S. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine

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