Here's her personal survival kit - you'll want to borrow heavily. An inspiration to writers and readers alike, Yuknavitch answered my questions about how to not just survive but thrive as a writer and in a writer’s life. Yuknavitch is a much-watched figure in the literary community, and has written several books. What is actually meaningful? What is perverse? We are drawn in by the rich story, and then as it unfolds, called on to question what is genuine versus imagined. After a photograph of a young girl caught in the violence of war becomes an icon, a group of artist friends set out to rescue the girl and bring her to the United States, hoping her presence will save the seriously depressed writer friend of the photographer who has suffered her own tragedy. The Small Backs of Children ultimately fuels the idea that art is everything. Her memoir The Chronology of Water was an explosive hit, and her new novel, The Small Backs of Children, out Tuesday, is a provocative and thrilling jolt of a book. Her fierce prose will jumpstart your heart and electrify your brain - and that's just how the writer wants it. And yet, as their plot unfolds, everything we know about the story comes into question: What does the writer really want? Who is controlling the action? And what will happen when these two worldseast and west, real and virtualcollide?A fierce, provocative, and deeply affecting novel of both ideas and action that blends the tight construction of Julian Barness The Sense of an Ending with the emotional power of Anthony Marras A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Lidia Yuknavitchs The Small Backs of Children is a major step forward from one of our most avidly watched writers.Lidia Yuknavitch’s writing is a sizzle wire. The image wins acclaim and prizes, becoming an icon for millionsand a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographers best friend, who has suffered a devastating tragedy of her own.As the writer plunges into a suicidal depression, her filmmaker husband enlists several friends, including a fearless bisexual poet and an ingenuous performance artist, to save her by rescuing the unknown girl and bringing her to the United States. National BestsellerA masterful literary talent explores the treacherous, often violent borders between war and sex, love and art.With the flash of a camera, one girls life is shattered, and a host of others altered forever.In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family.
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