Thrust
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
ISBN
9780525534907, 0525534903, 9781838857820, 1838857826
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Status
Arlington - Adult
FIC YUKNAVITCH, L.
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780525534907, 0525534903, 9781838857820, 1838857826

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Description
"From the visionary author of The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, an epic novel tracing the conception and construction of a colossal statue--and the lives of two centuries of immigrants navigating its turbulent wake. "Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer who, with each ever more triumphant book, creates a new language with which she writes the audacious stories only she can tell," Roxane Gay has written. Now, Yuknavitch bridges the nineteenth and late twenty-first centuries with an imaginative masterpiece: the story of the life and afterlife of a national monument to liberty, as told through the lives of those who built it and those who struggle to survive in its imperfect shadow. Through three braided storylines, we follow the sculptor Frédéric and his firebrand American lover, Aurora; Mikael, an Eastern European orphan locked in an American prison, and Lilly, a case worker trying to save him; and the construction worker Aster and his daughter Laisvė, a "carrier" with a gift of using ancient waterways to swim through time. As the dream Frédéric conceived--and Aster helped build--founders under rising seas, Laisvė must dodge enforcement raids and find her way back to Lilly and then, finally, to Aurora, to forge a connection that might save their fractured dream of freedom"--,Provided by publisher.
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As rising waters--and an encroaching police state--endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a carrier travels through water and time to rescue vulnerable figures from the margins of history. Laisve, a motherless girl from the late 21st century, is learning her power as a carrier, a person who can harness the power of meaningful objects to carry her through time. Sifting through the detritus of a fallen city known as the Brook, she discovers a talisman that will mysteriously connect her with a series of characters from the past two centuries: a French sculptor; a woman of the American underworld; a dictator's daughter; an accused murderer; and a squad of laborers at work on a national monument. Through intricately braided storylines, Laisve must dodge enforcement raids and find her way to the present day, and then, finally, to the early days of her imperfect country, to forge a connection that might save their lives--and their shared dream of freedom.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Yuknavitch, L. (2022). Thrust . Riverhead Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Yuknavitch, Lidia. 2022. Thrust. Riverhead Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Yuknavitch, Lidia. Thrust Riverhead Books, 2022.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Yuknavitch, Lidia. Thrust Riverhead Books, 2022.

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