The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of extreme grief on a young woman's deve...show more
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(2nd reading)
This book is even better the second time reading it.
Her words make my words more possible.
Raw, brutal, devastating, inspiring, and so so intimately familiar. My fucking hero.
**
(1st reading)
In a nonfiction writing workshop in college I learned to rip myself open and let myself bleed words and wounds onto paper. It isn't pretty. It's an attempt to create cohesion, A Story you can live with. How do you take your experiences and impose ...read more
This book is even better the second time reading it.
Her words make my words more possible.
Raw, brutal, devastating, inspiring, and so so intimately familiar. My fucking hero.
**
(1st reading)
In a nonfiction writing workshop in college I learned to rip myself open and let myself bleed words and wounds onto paper. It isn't pretty. It's an attempt to create cohesion, A Story you can live with. How do you take your experiences and impose ...read more
I've now read this remarkable book twice, and even as I finish it I want to start again. It's a memoir, yes, but it doesn't feel like that, and yet it does. It is heartfelt but illuminating, makes you want to cry but I also laughed out loud at some of the descriptions. It tells of the many traumas and joys of Lydia's life, and yes it can feel shocking because she's suffered abuse in different genres, but it makes you feel, truly feel, as a woman ...read more
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