Reading the Waves A Memoir | 2.91 MB
Title: Reading the Waves
Author: Lidia Yuknavitch
Category: Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Self Help, Self Improvement, Creativity, Religion & Spirituality, New Age, Personal Transformation, Biography & Memoir
Language: English | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0593713052
Description:
The frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal.
"I believe our bodies are carriers of experience," Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir Reading the Waves. "I mean to ask if there is a way to read my own past differently, using what I have learned from literature: how stories repeat and reverberate and release us from the tyranny of our mistakes, our traumas, and our confusions."
Drawing on her background – her father’s abuse, her complicated dynamic with her disabled mother, the death of her child, her sexual relationships with men and women – and her creative life as an author and teacher, Yuknavitch has come to understand that by using the power of literature and storytelling to reframe her memories, she can loosen the bonds that have enslaved her emotional growth. Armed with this insight, she allows herself to look with the eye of an artist at the wounds she suffered and come to understand the…
The frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal.
"I believe our bodies are carriers of experience," Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir Reading the Waves. "I mean to ask if there is a way to read my own past differently, using what I have learned from literature: how stories repeat and reverberate and release us from the tyranny of our mistakes, our traumas, and our confusions."
Drawing on her background – her father’s abuse, her complicated dynamic with her disabled mother, the death of her child, her sexual relationships with men and women – and her creative life as an author and teacher, Yuknavitch has come to understand that by using the power of literature and storytelling to reframe her memories, she can loosen the bonds that have enslaved her emotional growth. Armed with this insight, she allows herself to look with the eye of an artist at the wounds she suffered and come to understand the…
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