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050	0	0	_aPS3575.U35 _bZ46 2010
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100	1		_aYuknavitch, Lidia
245	1	4	_aThe chronology of water _b: a memoir _c/ Lidia Yuknavitch ; introduction by Chelsea Cain
260			_aPortland, Or. _b: Hawthorne Books _c, c2010.
300			_axvii, 310 p. _c; 23 cm.
505	0		_aHolding breath -- Under blue -- The wet -- Resuscitations -- The other side of drowning.
520			_aThe floodgates of Yuknavitch's (Real to Reel) powerful memoir burst open with the birth of her stillborn daughter and from there the events of her life "swim in and out between each other, [w]ithout chronology." Yuknavitch is a former competitive swimmer and she repeatedly returns to the image of life's fragments being swept along, as if by a current. After a childhood spent fearing her abusive father and furious at her alcoholic mother for failing to protect her and her older sister, Yuknavitch received a swimming scholarship to Texas Tech, which she loses after her second year when she became addicted to alcohol and drugs. Married briefly to an artist, she ends up at the University of Oregon, part of a fiction workshop taught by Ken Kesey, her writing fueled by the recent loss of her daughter. It takes another failed marriage before she realizes that mutual respect between a man and a woman is possible. This isn't a memoir "about" addiction, abuse, or love: it's a triumphantly unrelenting look at a life buoyed by the power of the written word.
600	1	0	_aYuknavitch, Lidia
655		7	_aAutobiography
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