Lidia Yuknavitch | The Sun Magazine

Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch, who describes herself as an introvert who passes for an extrovert, is the author of the memoir The Chronology of Water, and her debut novel, Dora: A Head Case, is due out in September. She lives with her husband and son in Milwaukie, Oregon.

— From June 2012
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Unspeakable Things Between Our Bellies

I don’t identify with most other mothers — the conversations about clothes and music lessons and camps and milestones in development. The only mothers I truly feel OK around are the ones whose kids have something different about them. Something odd. Or wrong. Or worse.

June 2012
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