

The Small Backs of Children
Author: Lidia Yuknavitch
Narrator: Amanda Dolan
Unabridged: 5 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 07/07/2015
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Lidia Yuknavitch
Narrator: Amanda Dolan
Unabridged: 5 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 07/07/2015
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the nationally bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children (winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Reader's Choice Award), the novel Dora: A Headcase, and three books of short fiction. Her widely acclaimed memoir, The Chronology of Water, was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice.
Lidia founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland Oregon, where she teaches both in person and online. She received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. She lives in Oregon with her husband, Andy Mingo, and their renaissance man son, Miles. She is a very good swimmer.
I loved this book in the beginning. I read an e-galley of this on my kindle and as I often do , I started to highlight passages that stand out for me or that get me in the gut . After a few pages , I realized that I had highlighted more than half of what I had read . The writing was gorgeous. From t......more
This is one of those rare books that I cannot describe, only to say that it hit me at gut level. Sometimes so much so that I had to set it aside, as it had it's way with me. It is a book about artists and their art, but the characters do not have names, simply, the photographer, the painter, etc. Th......more
I admired a lot of what Yuknavitch did with this book, the layering of characters, the spinning of plot, but I did not love it. She is a formidable talent on the sentence/image/poetic level, and I could see what she was going for with the focus on the body--violence/sex/love/life/art--but there were......more