Sifting through the detritus of a fallen city known as the Brook, she discovers a talisman that will mysteriously connect her with a series of characters from the past two centuries: a French sculptor a woman of the American underworld a dictator's daughter an accused murderer and a squad of laborers at work on a national monument. Now, Yuknavitch offers an imaginative masterpiece: the story of Laisve, a motherless girl from the late 21st century who is learning her power as a carrier, a person who can harness the power of meaningful objects to carry her through time. Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins-vulnerable humans leading lives of challenge and transcendence. And yet, as their plot unfolds, everything we know about the story comes into question: What does the writer really want? Who is controlling the action? And what will happen when these two worldseast and west, real and virtualcollide? A fierce, provocative, and deeply affecting novel of both ideas and action that blends the tight construction of Julian Barness The Sense of an Ending with the emotional power of Anthony Marras A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Lidia Yuknavitchs The Small Backs of Children is a major step forward from one of our most avidly watched writers.As rising waters-and an encroaching police state-endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a carrier travels through water and time to rescue vulnerable figures from the margins of history As the writer plunges into a suicidal depression, her filmmaker husband enlists several friends, including a fearless bisexual poet and an ingenuous performance artist, to save her by rescuing the unknown girl and bringing her to the United States. The image wins acclaim and prizes, becoming an icon for millionsand a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographers best friend, who has suffered a devastating tragedy of her own. In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. With the flash of a camera, one girls life is shattered, and a host of others altered forever. National Bestseller A masterful literary talent explores the treacherous, often violent borders between war and sex, love and art.
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