Purchase

Amazon

Kindle

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Apple Books

Google Play

Powell's Books

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Ripped Bodice

Add to Wish List

Also by Lidia Yuknavitch:

Thrust, July 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Verge, February 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Verge, February 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
The Book of Joan, April 2017
Hardcover
The Chronology of Water, April 2011
Hardcover

Verge
Lidia Yuknavitch

Riverhead Books
February 2021
On Sale: February 2, 2021
208 pages
ISBN: 0525534881
EAN: 9780525534884
Kindle: B07T512J5R
Trade Size / e-Book
Add to Wish List

Other Editions
Hardcover (February 2020)

Literature and Fiction Literary

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Bustle and Lit Hub

A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.

Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her characters are scarred by the unchecked hungers of others and themselves, yet determined to find salvation within lives that can feel beyond their control. In novels such as The Small Backs of Children and The Book of Joan, she has captivated readers with stories of visceral power. Now, in Verge, she offers a shard-sharp mosaic portrait of human resilience on the margins.
 
The landscape of Verge is peopled with characters who are innocent and imperfect, wise and endangered: an eight-year-old black-market medical courier, a restless lover haunted by memories of his mother, a teenage girl gazing out her attic window at a nearby prison, all of them wounded but grasping toward transcendence. Clear-eyed yet inspiring, Verge challenges us with moments of uncomfortable truth, even as it urges us to place our faith not in the flimsy guardrails of society but in the memories held—and told—by our own individual bodies.

Comments

No comments posted.

Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!