Book

The Chronology of Water

Lidia Yuknavitch · 2011

Sequence ladder

Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.

Arctransformation_arcbraidedmemory_driventraumaidentitydesireshamebelonging

Themesilencevoice theftbeltsisterplanedaughter rage secretslubbockfreedom

Voicemournfuldefiantpoeticreflective

Context2011lived_experience

What this book knows

A body remembers everything the self tries to forget — water, sex, violence, and writing are how Yuknavitch survives herself.

Sex: Primary
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

trauma-and-survivalembodimentgrief

grief

THE DAY MY DAUGHTER WAS STILLBORN, AFTER I HELD the future pink and rose-lipped in my shivering arms, lifeless tender, covering her face in tears and kisses
TCW-001
When your baby isn't moving inside you, the normal process is stalled. Nothing moved my child within.
TCW-002

trauma-and-survival

I'd ruptured my hymen. My father's hands. A flashlight. Blood. Girl. He made me go back to the top of the hill.
TCW-004
I leaned in as close to his face as I could and said do it. It was his voice I used. It seemed we'd die in that moment.
TCW-008

embodiment

I masturbated so hard that night I scratched my skin raw. Big enough to fit the rage of a girl.
TCW-014
My own room my own food my own alcohol my own sex my own money my own thoughts my own body my my my freedom.
TCW-011

Illuminates

15 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience

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