The Book of Joan. Lidia Yuknavitch

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      Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children and Dora: A Headcase. Her highly acclaimed memoir, The Chronology of Water, was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for Creative Non-fiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Awards' Readers' Choice. Her TED talk, 'The Beauty of Being a Misfit', has been watched over two million times. Lidia teaches in Oregon, where she lives with her husband Andy Mingo and their son. She is a very good swimmer. @LidiaYuknavitch | lidiayuknavitch.net

      ALSO BY LIDIA YUKNAVITCH

       The Small Backs of Children

       Dora: A Headcase

       The Chronology of Water

       Her Other Mouths

       Liberty’s Excess

       Real to Reel

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      Published in Great Britain in 2018 by Canongate Books Ltd,

      14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

      First published in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers,

      195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007

       canongate.co.uk

      This digital edition first published in 2017 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © Lidia Yuknavitch, 2017

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 78689 239 3

      Export ISBN 978 1 78689 240 9

      eISBN 978 1 78689 241 6

       This book is for Brigid.

      “We are all creatures of the stars.”

      —DORIS LESSING

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      “Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. It kills the other story options.”

      —MARGUERITE DURAS

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      “Be careful what stories you tell yourselves about beauty, about otherness. Be careful what stories ‘count.’ They will have consequences that shiver the planet.”

       —The Book of Joan

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      CONTENTS

       Book One

       Prologue

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Book Two

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Book Three

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four

       Chapter Twenty-Five

       Chapter Twenty-Six

       Chapter Twenty-Seven

       Chapter Twenty-Eight

       Chapter Twenty-Nine

       Chapter Thirty

       Chapter Thirty-One

       Chapter Thirty-Two

       Chapter Thirty-Three


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