Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children (winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Awards' Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Readers' Choice Award) and Dora: A Headcase. Her highly acclaimed...

A memoir from the author of "The Book Of Joan", drawing attention to the potential of the exhilaration of swimming - and other outlets for desire and expression - for overcoming the difficulties wrought by a troubled early life. von...