Reading the Waves

From the author of The Chronology of Water, a frank new memoir about storytelling as a source of healing.

‘A quicksilver, expansive exploration of grief and hauntings’ Vanity Fair

‘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, a complicated dynamic with her disabled mother and the death of her child, Lidia Yuknavitch revisits her past with an author’s gaze.

Now, at the age of sixty, her outlook has changed. She wonders differently, remembers differently. And as Yuknavitch rewrites and reclaims her early life, she unburdens herself of old wounds and alters her future.

‘I have learned so much from her about storytelling, survival, and the ways that tenderness and strength are siblings’ MELISSA FEBOS