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Verge

by Lidia Yuknavitch
Verge

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I need better language to talk about this book, these stories. Brokenness. Fury. Quiet. Orgasm. Triumph. Death. Impressions of the misfit life, the human experience. Lidia Yuknavitch writes with fire about the frozen souls of the lost. And we’re all lost. You have to read slowly, read again, stop and let settle. This book is short, but it’s so big I have to take time to breathe now that I’m done.  Recommended By Doug C., Powells.com

Fierce, elegant, beautifully grotesque, unabashedly sexy, unapologetically brutal. Exploring the effects of trauma and want on the psyche, Lidia Yuknavitch masterfully mixes sharp reality with the fantastical. Whether about blood-hungry mythical graywolves or desperate addicts seeking a fix, the stories in Verge are surreal, dark fairy tales of pure, deep-down truth. Recommended By Gigi L., Powells.com

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Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Bustle and Lit Hub

A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.

Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her characters are scarred by the unchecked hungers of others and themselves, yet determined to find salvation within lives that can feel beyond their control. In novels such as The Small Backs of Children and The Book of Joan, she has captivated readers with stories of visceral power. Now, in Verge, she offers a shard-sharp mosaic portrait of human resilience on the margins.

The landscape of Verge is peopled with characters who are innocent and imperfect, wise and endangered: an eight-year-old black-market medical courier, a restless lover haunted by memories of his mother, a teenage girl gazing out her attic window at a nearby prison, all of them wounded but grasping toward transcendence. Clear-eyed yet inspiring, Verge challenges us with moments of uncomfortable truth, even as it urges us to place our faith not in the flimsy guardrails of society but in the memories held — and told — by our own individual bodies.

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"In Verge, characters find their meaning and faith in their own bodies, grounded in physicality and anatomy, pain and desire. These stories are daring, provoking, and incendiary." Booklist (Starred Review)

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"Brilliant....Consistently incisive, with sharp sentences and a barreling pace....This riveting collection invites readers to see women whose points of view are typically ignored." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

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"Insistently visceral...These howls from the throats of women, queer characters, the impoverished, and the addicted remind us of the beauty and pain of our shared humanity. Gutsy stories from one of our most fearless writers." Kirkus Reviews

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"Verge is a wonderful, challenging book. I know these people. I know their dilemmas, and where I don't recognize them, I believe them. The passion Lidia Yuknavitch brings to the page is astounding. I am caught up, shaken up, and now and then simply delighted. 'Listen to this, ' I call out to friends, and then, minutes later: 'No, wait, listen to this!'" Dorothy Allison

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"I can't remember the last time I was as captivated by a collection as I am by Verge. The grace implicit in these stories is rare, and the way the book brings us to the verge of the unthinkable, and then leaves us to ponder our complicity, is astonishing." Jamie Quatro

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"Verge is a bouquet of dynamite: explosive, deadly, and spectacularly beautiful. These stories captivated me like modern fairy tales, and like those dark lessons they showed me how resilience is forged through survival, beauty through brokenness, joy by fire. The women who occupy them are my favorite kinds of heroines: as flawed as they are furious, as bold as they are tender. I won't soon forget them." Melissa Febos

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"Verge is dangerous. Lidia Yuknavitch, through multiple narratives, explores human endurance with brilliance and lightning power. She thunders life to each page. I am forever a fan." Terese Marie Mailhot

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"Lidia Yuknavitch is a life-giving sea creature, an anemone, opening and closing, showing us our beauty and dis-ease. These twenty breath-catching stories come from the margins, that place we all live now. Her work is a necessity, all the ways she forgives us, and urges us on." Pam Houston

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"A vertiginous and revelatory book whose characters — sometimes in desperate situations, and sometimes, finally, in a place of safety — have much to say about the world that we live in now. Lidia Yuknavitch is astonishing." Kelly Link

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"The powers of her prose [are] on full, incandescent display....The damaged beauty of these misfits keeps the reader leaning in." Nicholas Mancusi, TIME

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"Children harvest organs, janitors build magical worlds, and mourning lovers drive to destinations unknown in this searing, precise collection of short stories." Vogue

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"Spellbinding." O: The Oprah Magazine

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"Bracing [and] profound." Entertainment Weekly

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"Full of suspense....Young or old, male or female, the characters in Verge will shock and impress themselves onto the reader." LitHub

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"Yuknavitch's writing is as sharp as ever and her empathetic takes on the grief, trauma, and beauty of marginalized souls are as precise as they are gripping. This is a book that lingers." Refinery29

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"This book is a gem....A brilliant collection of twenty stories that contain as much compassion as suffering...In Yuknavitch's hands, words are both swords and feathers." Ms. Magazine

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"Yuknavitch is one of the most celebrated contemporary writers. [Now she] returns with a collection of short stories that embody her unique blend of the unsettling and the delightful." Electric Literature

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"Dynamite....I don't know of any other writer who can render the brutality of life with such honesty and dazzle....Verge is volatile and vital." Lambda Literary

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"Lidia Yuknavitch displays the same gift for exploring the borderland between art, sex, and trauma that readers have come to expect....[turning] her powers toward life on the margins." The Millions

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"Yuknavitch writes with rare empathy about the repercussions of grief, loss and dislocation." Jane Ciabattari, BBC Culture

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"Disturbing and delightful all at once." BookRiot

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"With the publication of Verge, Yuknavitch's writing flies into hyperspace....[ Verge is] an act of courage and urgency. The book is historically specific, yet ultimately timeless." The Brooklyn Rail

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"Characters who are often pushed to the fringes of literary fiction are given voice through Yuknavitch's raw prose, resulting in a collection that feels equal parts urgent and soothing." The Adroit Journal

About the Author

Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, and of the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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ISBN:
9780525534884
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
02/02/2021
Publisher:
RIVERHEAD BOOKS/PENGUIN PUTNAM
Pages:
208
Height:
.50IN
Width:
5.13IN
Author:
Lidia Yuknavitch

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