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The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
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Lidia Yuknavitch
Liz Greenhill
, January 26, 2013
Beneath the navel of the male musk deer, a jowly thick-furred creature still living in the outer reaches of Asia, there is a gland lodged under the fat and fur. This gland is a prize. It is medicine. When properly decocted, it holds the power to rouse a person from a stupor, a coma, or any other terrible extreme sense of loss, like being lost from one’s self. It will bring one back to a state of consciousness. The old texts describe the way that the unconscious are prey to little ghosts living in the caves of their ears, noses, mouths, eyes. These ghosts numb the senses by “obstructing the orifices." The musk extracted from the navel of this deer is powerful enough medicine to chase them off. Its properties are that alarming, that rousing, that sensual. Drinking it makes you want to live. She Xiang ('shuh shee-ahng'), as it’s called, is contraband across Asia, and illegal in the United States. But don’t worry, you don’t need it. Lidia Yuknavitch’s _The Chronology of Water_ packs a similar punch. It is that rousing, that sensual, and that awakening. It restores consciousness. It chases the hiding ghosts free from the bodies of those who read it. This book can show you the way back to your self.
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Doctors Wife
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Luis Jaramillo
Liz Greenhill
, December 04, 2012
The Doctor’s Wife is a collection of short stories that reads like saga captured in tableaux. This is a family narrative in 91 arresting and varied compositions halved into two parts, in which our narrator is the grandson of the Doctor’s Wife and the majority of the book is comprised of stories from his mother’s childhood. It’s a thrill to watch Jaramillo flirt with the range of breviloquence possible in prose. Some stories are as short as a sentence, while others last for eight pages of sensuous prose and crystal dialogue. Luis Jaramillo knows his way around the prosaic form like a dancer knows the edges of his stage. Each story is cut from the fabric of a family history, and shaped into its own form. If The Doctor’s Wife were a family quilt, it would be of the Gee school, wildly inventive and varied, but crafted with perfect tiny stitches.
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