Reading the Waves: A Memoir J. R. Ward A Best Book of the

A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times

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Growing up in Brooklyn

Reading the Waves: A Memoir J. R. Ward A Best Book of theThe frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal. I believe our bodies are carriers of experience, Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir Reading the Waves. I mean to ask if there is a way to read my own past differently, using what I have learned from literature: how stories repeat and reverberate and release us from the tyranny of our mistakes, our traumas, and our confusions. Drawing on her background