The Small Backs of Children

Description

In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. It becomes an icon for millions, winning acclaim and prizes - and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer's best friend, who has suffered a tragedy of her own. With the flash of a camera, one girl's life is shattered and another's is altered forever.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children and Dora: A Headcase as well as a highly acclaimed memoir, The Chronology of Water. 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 and their son. @LidiaYuknavitch | lidiayuknavitch.net

Wild . . . genuinely subversive * * New Yorker * * A tour de force * * Los Angeles Review of Books * * Intensely corporeal, potently feminist, tenaciously written * * Boston Globe * * Lidia Yuknavitch burns through sex, art, and war * * Vanity Fair * * Explosive . . . with a vital intensity that grabs at the gutstrings * * Los Angeles Times * * Beautifully examines the fractures of loss and the myriad ways we can recover from it . . . A wild ride * * Huffington Post * * I have never felt so wrung out by a novel and yet simultaneously invigorated . . . A terrifically good novel and powerfully written * * Paris Review * * [An example] of thrilling storytelling with universal appeal * * Entertainment Weekly * * This is a novel for the bold of heart * * New York Journal of Books * * Masterful . . . Promises to stay on the skin long after the reader has turned the last page . . . Tightly wound, pacy and provocative * * Irish Independent * *