![]() She received her doctorate in literature from the University of Oregon and founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland. ![]() The Misfit's Manifesto, a book that grew out of her widely viewed Ted Talk, will be published in the fall. ![]() Yuknavitch is the author of several award-winning books, including the novels The Small Backs of Children and Dora: A Headcase and the memoir The Chronology of Water. A masterful literary talent explores the treacherous, often violent borders between war and sex, love and art. Lidia Yuknavitchs novel The Small Backs of. Yet it's also radically new, full of maniacal invention and page-turning momentum." What is a girl but this This obscene and beautiful making, this brilliant imagination inventing meaning. The New York Times describes the novel as "brilliant and incendiary," and says it "speaks to the reader in raw, boldly honest terms." The review goes on to say " The Book of Joan has the same unflinching quality as earlier works by Josephine Saxton, Doris Lessing, Frank Herbert, Ursula K. The book raises questions about what it means to be human, the fluidity of sex and gender, and the role of art as a means for survival. ![]() This provocative novel offers a vision of our near-extinction and a heroine - a reimagined Joan of Arc - poised to save a world ravaged by war, violence, and greed, and forever change history. ![]() We are thrilled to cap off our spring reading season with an appearance by the author of the most talked-about book of the spring: Lidia Yuknavitch with her new novel The Book of Joan. ![]()
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