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 and their son.
She is a very good swimmer.
@LidiaYuknavitch | lidiayuknavitch.net
In Dora: A Headcase, Lidia Yuknavitch gives voice to a Freud
patient who famously couldn't speak, and presents her as a radical
everywoman . . . Yuknavitch possesses a great well of empathy for
misfits and a great passion for radical art
* * Boston Globe * *
Yuknavitch has exhibited a rare gift for writing that concedes
little in its quest to be authentic, meaningful and relevant
* * New York Times * *
In Dora, [Yuknavitch] takes the most classic model of
Thera-tainment, personal-crisis-as-content and she re-imagines it
wonderfully reversed. The world of Dora is not just possible, it's
inevitable. It's revenge as the ultimate therapy
*CHUCK PALAHNIUK*
Dora is too much for Sigmund Freud but she's just right for us -
raunchy, sharp and so funny it hurts
*KATHERINE DUNN author of GEEK LOVE*
Yuknavitch reimagines the girl, the woman, at the heart of Sigmund
Freud's breakthrough case study and unleashes this character's fury
against a backdrop of hypocritical adulthood . . . I'd like to
think she wrote parts of this novel just for me, but so many
readers will feel that way
*MONICA DRAKE author of CLOWN GIRL*
Dora is unlike any girl you'd ever dare to dream up, and
Yuknavitch's full-bodied style of narrative, wrought with twisted
grammar and jarring language, is disordered, unapologetic, and the
only thing that could bring her to life . . . Yuknavitch has
steered a new giant onto a literary genre's roster of teen
anti-heroes, and created ten new meanings to the word "bad-ass"
*Electric Literature*
[An] audacious first novel . . . Yuknavitch nails the whip-smart
angst of a teenage girl trapped in a world both familiar and
unique, and her ease with language makes her a prose stylist to
envy
* * Publishers Weekly * *
There's no reason for a novel to exist unless it's dangerous,
provocative and not like anything that's come before. Dora: A
Headcase is that kind of novel. It's dirty, sexy, rude, smart,
soulful, fresh and risky
*KAREN KARBO, author of HOW GEORGIA BECAME O'KEEFFE*
An irreverent portrait of a smart seventeen year old trying to
survive. It channels Sigmund Freud and his young patient Dora and
is both a hilarious critique and an oddly touching homage. With an
unerring ear and a very keen eye, Lidia Yuknavitch casts a very
special slant of light on our centuries and our lives
*CAROLE MASO author of DEFIANCE*
Snappy and fun. I can pretty much guarantee you haven't met a
character quite l like Ida before
*BLAKE NELSON author of GIRL*
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