Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch
An eight-year-old trauma victim is enlisted as an underground courier, rushing frozen organs through the alleys of Eastern Europe. A young janitor transforms discarded objects into a fantastical, sprawling miniature city until a shocking discovery forces him to rethink his creation. A brazen child tells off a pack of schoolyard tormentors with the spirited invention of an eleventh commandment. A wounded man drives eastward, through tears and grief, toward an unexpected transcendence. A book of heroic grace and empathy, Verge is a viscerally powerful and moving survey of our modern heartache life.Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the national popular books The Book of Joan, The Little Backs of Children, Dora: A Headcase, and The Chronology of Water, as well as the memoir The Chronology of Water. Her TED Talk, The Beauty of Being a Misfit, has been seen over 2 million times. She has won two Oregon Book Awards and a Willamette Writers Award, as well as being a nominee for the 2017 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the 2012 Pen Center Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she writes, teaches, and writes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525534877 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525534873 |
| Title | Verge |
| Author | Lidia Yuknavitch |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2020-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for The Story Prize 2020 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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