Verge (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780525534877)

LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE

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.

Author: Lidia Yuknavitch
ISBN-10: 0525534873
ISBN-13: 9780525534877
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2020
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 48
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 12/09/2019
Booklist 01/01/2020 pg. 40
Shelf Awareness 02/11/2020