This is not your mother's memoir. 

"Lidia Yuknavitch is my favorite new writer…It’s so genius I’m not quite sure how she did it. The tone is a combination of high and low, with some of the writing literary and metaphorical, some conversational and shock-jockey, all of it fueled by rage and pain and love and art and transformation." VALERIE STIVERS-ISAKOVA, HUFFINGTON POST

"The Chronology of Water... has lately achieved cult status.  Lidia Yuknavitch…imparts a visceral power to the experience of lust, a power unmatched in any recent account I can think of." CLAIRE DEDERER, THE ATLANTIC