{"id":2522,"date":"2016-02-02T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:49:33","slug":"lidia-yuknavitch-comes-to-aunties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/lidia-yuknavitch-comes-to-aunties\/","title":{"rendered":"Lidia Yuknavitch comes to Auntie's!"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Andrew Moreno<\/em><\/p>\n

\"lidia<\/a>Portland author Lidia Yuknavitch\u2014 award-winning memoirist, novelist, editor, short-story writer, critic and more\u2014 will be visiting Spokane and reading at Auntie\u2019s Bookstore on February 26th at 7:30. You should go. I\u2019m going. But enough about me.<\/p>\n

\"Lidia\"<\/a>In an interview the Rumpus<\/a>, Yuknavitch said \u201cthe membrane between fiction and nonfiction is thin as an infant\u2019s skin,\u201d and this thinness is certainly at play in her most recent novel, The Small Backs of Children<\/em>. The main character\u2014called \u201cthe writer\u201d\u2014 has a past very similar to Yuknavitch\u2019s own: former swimmer, former addict, mother to a dead daughter and a living son. So when you open one of her books, you can expect a fair share of narrative experiments\u2014shifting points of view, moving through time, and testing of the bounds between truth and untruth. The novel moves between two perspectives: that of an American photographer who captures an iconic image of a young girl fleeing war in Eastern Europe; and that of a writer, the photographer\u2019s best friend, who becomes obsessed with the image and the unknown girl within it. The Los Angeles Times<\/em> called the novel \u201cfierce in its vision, with captivating prose that carries its own momentum. Yuknavitch has created a reading experience that is uncomfortable and dazzling, with a vital intensity that grabs at the gutstrings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"“Memoirs are fiction to me,” Yuknavitch said in an interview with Lit Hub<\/a>. Yuknavitch\u2019s memoir The Chronology of Water<\/em> was released in 2010, and it received ecstatic reviews from across the literary community. Fellow Portlander Chuck Palahniuk said of the \u201cI\u2019ve read [it], cover to cover, a dozen times. I am still reading it. And I will, most likely, return to it for inspiration and ideas, and out of sheer admiration, for the rest of my life.\u201d Chronology<\/em>, as much as Yuknavitch says the form may be a fiction, chronicles the author\u2019s childhood abuse at the hands of her father, competitive swimming that promised to be the escape, and the alcohol and drug addiction that caused her to lose her Olympic dreams and would shape her life for years to come.<\/p>\n

Be sure to see Lidia Yuknavitch\u2014 writer, teacher, editor, and really just one of the most interesting people you\u2019re likely to get to hear speak\u2014 at Auntie\u2019s Friday the 26th<\/sup> at 7:30. I guarantee it\u2019ll be worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Andrew Moreno Portland author Lidia Yuknavitch\u2014 award-winning memoirist, novelist, editor, short-story writer, critic and more\u2014 will be visiting Spokane and reading at Auntie\u2019s Bookstore on February 26th at 7:30. You should go. I\u2019m going. But enough about me. In an interview the Rumpus, Yuknavitch said \u201cthe membrane between fiction and nonfiction is thin as … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":924,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":[],"_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13827,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/13827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}