From the Outside In
Mar 31, 2020
3 minutes
By EMILY RAPP BLACK
Lidia Yuknavitch is known for placing those we don’t see or choose not to see at the center of her work. In novels such as The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children and her memoir, The Chronology of Water, she gives life and agency to characters who struggle on the fringes, suffering and occasionally thriving; the Oregon-based author writes about people and situations that would otherwise be absent from literature, just as they are marginalized in life. In Verge
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