The Chronology of Water

“Raw, intense, and powerful.” —Roxane Gay

“Yuknavitch has emerged as a trailblazing literary voice.” —Suleika Jaouard

“Yuknavitch drives narrative the way rednecks drive muscle cars. Right across your lawn without respect to boundaries.” —Vanessa Veselka

“Yuknavitch’s sex scenes are remarkable among current American novelists, not just for their explicitness but for the way she uses them to pursue questions of agency, selfhood, and the ethical implications of making art.” —The New Yorker

“Yuknavitch gives voice to the multitude.” —The Washington Post

“Yuknavitch possesses a great well of empathy for misfits and a great passion for radical art.” —The Boston Globe

“Yuknavitch’s words are incantations.” —Elle

“In Yuknavitch’s hands, words are both swords and feathers . . . She writes with a sensibility that is both blunt and empathic, as if to open the reader’s heart and make it bleed.” —Ms. Magazine

“Yuknavitch is one of the most celebrated contemporary writers.” —Electric Literature