Dora: A Headcase is a contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud’s famous case study — retold and revamped through Dora's point of view, with shotgun blasts of dark humor and sexual play. Ida needs a shrink. . or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, whom she nicknames Siggy, Ida begins a coming-of-age journey. At the beginning of her therapy, Ida, whose alter ego is Dora, and her small posse of pals engage in "art attacks." Ida’s in love with her friend Obsidian, but when she gets close to intimacy, she faints or loses her voice. Ida and her friends hatch a plan to secretly film Siggy and make an experimental art film. But something goes wrong at a crucial moment — at a nearby hospital Ida finds her father suffering a heart attack. While Ida loses her voice, a rough cut of her experimental film has gone viral, and unethical media agents are hunting her down. A chase ensues in which everyone wants what Ida has

The 25 Most Anticipated Books by Women for 2017, Elle Magazine The 32 Most Exciting Books Coming Out in 2017, BuzzFeed 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2017, Nylon Magazine 33 New Books to Read in 2017, The Huffington Post Most Anticipated, The Great 2017 Book Preview, The Millions The bestselling author of The Small Backs of Children 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, in this provocative new novel. In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet’s now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the surviving humans have become sexless, hairless, pale-white creatures floating in isolation, inscribing stories upon their skin. Out of the ranks of the endless wars rises Jean de Men, a charismatic and bloodthirsty cult leader who turns CIEL into a quasi-corporate police state. A group of rebels unite to dismantle his iron rule—galvanized by the heroic song of Joan, a child-warrior who possesses a mysterious force that lives within her and communes with the earth. When de Men and his armies turn Joan into a martyr, the consequences are astonishing. And no one—not the rebels, Jean de Men, or even Joan herself—can foresee the way her story and unique gift will forge the destiny of an entire world for generations. A riveting tale of destruction and love found in the direst of places—even at the extreme end of post-human experience—Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhheY5ISJ4

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 developing sexuality that some define as untraditional because of her attraction to both men and women. Her emergence as a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey of addiction, self-destruction, and ultimately survival that finally comes in the shape of love and motherhood

A masterful literary talent explores the treacherous, often violent borders between war and sex, love and art. With the flash of a camera, one girl’s 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. The image wins acclaim and prizes, becoming an icon for millions — and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer’s 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. 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 worlds — east and west, real and virtual — collide? A fierce, provocative, and deeply affecting novel of both ideas and action that blends the tight construction of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending with the emotional power of Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children is a major step forward from one of our most avidly watched writers

Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins-vulnerable humans leading lives of challenge and transcendence. Now, Yuknavitch offers an imaginative masterpiece: the story of Laisve, a motherless girl from the late 21st century who is learning her power as a carrier, a person who can harness the power of meaningful objects to carry her through time. Sifting through the detritus of a fallen city known as the Brook, she discovers a talisman that will mysteriously connect her with a series of characters from the past two centuries: a French sculptor; a woman of the American underworld; a dictator's daughter; an accused murderer; and a squad of laborers at work on a national monument. Through intricately braided storylines, Laisve must dodge enforcement raids and find her way to the present day, and then, finally, to the early days of her imperfect country, to forge a connection that might save their lives-and their shared dream of freedom. A dazzling novel of body, spirit, and survival, Thrust will leave no reader unchanged

Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year by Vogue, Buzzfeed, Hello Giggles, and more. A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction

Лидия Юкиавич обладает даром рассказывать истории уязвимых людей, жизнь которых полна потрясений. Недалекое будущее, из-за глобального потепления уровень океана поднялся, и на уцелевшие участки суши стекаются беженцы. Лайсве потеряла мать и брата и пытается спасти тех, кем она еще дорожит. Она путешествует сквозь воду и время, общается с черепахой, собирает странные вещи. На ее пути встречаются строители статуи Свободы, узники подводной тюрьмы, ребенок Индиго, женщина с протезом вместо ноги, люди самых разных возрастов и национальностей. Сможет ли Лайсве, блуждая в зеркалящих друг друга мирах, изменить ход истории? Удастся ли вырваться из ранящей антиутопии и найти путь в будущее без границ и социальных иерархий? И есть ли дом для всех, кто понимает, как прекрасна общая мечта о свободе?

Мемуары Лидии Юкнавич «Хронология воды» громко прозвучали на американской книжной сцене в 2011 году и принесли писательнице известность и признание. Отпуская воспоминания разных лет в свободный дрейф, Юкнавич, едва не ставшая профессиональной пловчихой, рассказывает историю выживания и преодоления травмы: от детства в дисфункциональной семье, отмеченного насилием со стороны отца, сквозь залитые алкоголем годы турбулентной юности, когда за крушением надежд последовали эксперименты с веществами и отношениями, к становлению в качестве писательницы и матери вопреки утратам. Лидия Юкнавич пишет яростно, на одном дыхании, без прикрас выкладывая перед читательницами свой травматичный опыт, отношения с отцовскими и материнскими фигурами (важную роль в ее жизни сыграли Кен Кизи и Кэти Акер), телесные переживания. Откровенная, горькая, но вселяющая надежду книга о том, как выплыть, как проложить свой путь к устойчивости и свету. Экранизация этих мемуаров станет режиссерским дебютом Кристен Стюарт