her other mouths

by Lidia Yuknavitch

a collection of short fictions. language shoots up and through the body in these fictions of desire inwhich women bleed, bruise, and burn their way beyond culturally sanctioned girl slots. wicked love stories and the crack and split of new intellects emerge in the wake of a sea of "isms." yuknavitch's stories leave questions like marks on the flesh of characters whose stories aren't pretty--they are raw, terrible, a different beauty than we've yet imagined. freudian shudders; these mouths penetrate.

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

120 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, and the novel Dora: A Headcase, Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. Her nonfiction book based on her TED Talk, The Misfit's Manifesto, is forthcoming from TED Books.

She founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland Oregon, where she teaches both in person and online. She received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. She lives in Oregon with her husband Andy Mingo and their renaissance man son, Miles. She is a very good swimmer.

Reviews

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is this thing I learned about in a DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) class called the half-smile. It's exactly what it sounds like, smiling halfway, but the point is that half-smiling evokes some special response in the brain. When I do it I get this weird happy glowing feeling--it's really hard to describe, but I get a very similar feeling when I read Lydia Yuknavitch. Her writing is pure magic to me--I just love the words she uses and the way she puts them together.

[Josie · Rating 4 out of 5]

lets be honest: id read the phone book if it was written by lidia yuknavitch

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just finished "her other mouths." What I loved about The Chronology of Water, Dora, and this piece here is that her writing is never sugarcoated. It's raw, it's real, it's a punch in the gut, it's the reality that many people don't want to admit or to face. But it's something that is a necessity and makes for a mind-altering read. Thank you for letting me feel YOU.

[Lorra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful - my favourite of her short story books (her memoir is the best of all, though). The story "Loving Dora" is my favourite of them all - the light beaming through the other stories. Am hoping that this is the basis of her upcoming work "Dora" in 2012. Recommended!!

The line I loved best: "When I picture them on a bed the bed is the hot red earth of Mexico and Michael is like a roll of wind mixed with clay and sand and like a hill he moves and envelops Greta the way a dune carries a reptile in the desert like a dancer."

GORGEOUS.

[Gort · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[a r e l i c · Rating 4 out of 5]

21 old, stale cigarette air
37 decomposing flesh to meat & vein
42 drool & leftover vomit
48 burnt, sweet flesh
56 gold like hay
58 gasoline
114 shit & piss & spilt blood

[Katie McCleary · Rating 5 out of 5]

an eclectic collection of short stories that challenge gender, sexuality, and form... I can't really talk much beyond that because I'm too close to it, so much it can hurt sometimes.

[Melanie Page · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely Lidia with her lovely mouths