Thrust: A Novel
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Penguin Publishing Group , 2022.
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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERTHRUST IS:“Epic.” –The New York Times “A triumph.” —Elle “Stunningly beautiful.” —The Daily Beast “Both of the moment and utterly timeless.” —Chicago Review of Books “A book to take in wide-eyed.”  —Rebecca MakkaiNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY TIME, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, ELLE, THE DAILY BEAST, BUSTLE, LITHUB, and GIZMODOAs 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 historyLidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins—vulnerable humans leading lives of challenge and transcendence. Now, Yuknavitch offers an imaginative masterpiece: the story of Laisve, a motherless girl from the late 21st century who 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. A dazzling novel of body, spirit, and survival, Thrust will leave no reader unchanged.

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Street Date
06/28/2022
Language
English
ISBN
9780525534921

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Booklist Review

It's 2079, and Laisvė is escaping a Raid. A penny tucked into her cheek, she escapes the flooded Brook by diving into the currents that slice between times. There, she enters other stories: of the designer of the Statue of Liberty and his cousin Aurora, who owns a pleasure house; of the diverse group of iron workers who put the Lady together; of a broken boy in the wrong time and the social worker determined to help him. By connecting them in a web of meaningful objects, carrier Laisvė hopes to save them in the ways that matter most. Thrust is kinky, queer, and razor sharp--Yuknavitch knots stirring stories of exploitation and hurt into a tapestry of human hubris and climate disaster, then sprinkles them with BDSM and female pleasure, absurd humor, and a whale named Bal, who swears she has never once swallowed a man. All this comes together to form a stunning novel about the future we might be able to create if we listen to voices we've previously ignored--a strange, emotional story about the rush of freedom, about welcoming in the world around us from earthworms to fungi, and about being willing to start again.

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Publisher's Weekly Review

The blistering and visionary latest from Yuknavitch (The Book of Joan) follows a time-traveling girl on the run with her father in a bleak near future. Laisvė , an enchanted and motherless girl, keeps company with worms and whales as she flees with her single father from "Raids" perpetrated by ICE-like squads, "armed men in vans snaking like killer whales through the streets" of The Brook, a city suffused by water and comprising much of what appears to be Brooklyn and lower Manhattan. But Laisvė has a gift; she is a "carrier," able to move through time with the aid of a talking box turtle and reach fellow outsiders hailing from various points in history, arriving to help unroot them from the nightmares of their time. There is Mikael, the imprisoned "floating boy" of possibly criminal character in 1995; the early 21st century Mohawk laborer Joseph, filled with visions of his people; the 19th-century sculptor Frédéric, designer of the Statue of Liberty (the arduous construction of which becomes a recurring motif); and Aurora, who loses a leg during the Civil War and later becomes a sex worker. As Laisvė visits different periods of the region's history, there are taxonomies of beasts and bugs, and meditations on Amazonian fungi that give way to histories of vanished peoples and their imprint on the land they worked. "Stories are quantum," as Laisvė narrates, and Yuknavitch preserves the courage and eccentricity of her subjects by subverting any impulse toward rote orthodox storytelling. Instead, she offers a cracked mirror, an untethered dream, and a catch-all for myriad strands of history through which the reader may pleasurably roam free. This is the author's best yet. (June)

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Kirkus Book Review

A girl living in a dystopian future travels through time via water. Young Laisvė has seen more in her life than most adults. By the time she's a preteen, she's watched her mother be killed as her family attempted to flee from Siberia by sea; later, on a boat trip to see the Statue of Liberty (now largely below water), someone snatches her infant brother. Left with just her father, Laisvė must endure what she calls "The Hiding," living furtively in a small apartment in a ruined New York City and dodging the people-snatching operations known as "the Raids." One evening, when a Raid team comes knocking, Laisvė must put a tightly planned escape plan into action. But rather than head to a safe house, as she and her father had agreed, Laisvė has a secret. She's seen her mother underwater, and she's received instructions to travel to the past through the water, seeking out specific people. For what purpose, Laisvė is not told, but she sets off on a journey that will take her from a disabled sex worker in Victorian-era New York to a teen boy in a detention center with ties to Timothy McVeigh, and from the laborers who built the Statue of Liberty to the daughter of a European war criminal. Yuknavitch, as ever, is a maximalist, but the book wisely uses Laisvė (whose name means freedom in Lithuanian) as a kind of conduit through which many other narratives flow. Ultimately, Yuknavitch is interested in the way the bodies of immigrants, refugees, and marginalized people have been the fodder used to keep the American project going--and her humane love for those same bodies shines out everywhere through the extravagant prose. Complex, ambitious, and unafraid to earnestly love--and critique--America and its most dearly held principles. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Booklist Reviews

*Starred Review* It's 2079, and Laisve is escaping a Raid. A penny tucked into her cheek, she escapes the flooded Brook by diving into the currents that slice between times. There, she enters other stories: of the designer of the Statue of Liberty and his cousin Aurora, who owns a pleasure house; of the diverse group of iron workers who put the Lady together; of a broken boy in the wrong time and the social worker determined to help him. By connecting them in a web of meaningful objects, carrier Laisve hopes to save them in the ways that matter most. Thrust is kinky, queer, and razor sharp—Yuknavitch knots stirring stories of exploitation and hurt into a tapestry of human hubris and climate disaster, then sprinkles them with BDSM and female pleasure, absurd humor, and a whale named Bal, who swears she has never once swallowed a man. All this comes together to form a stunning novel about the future we might be able to create if we listen to voices we've previously ignored—a strange, emotional story about the rush of freedom, about welcoming in the world around us from earthworms to fungi, and about being willing to start again. Copyright 2022 Booklist Reviews.

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Publishers Weekly Reviews

The blistering and visionary latest from Yuknavitch (The Book of Joan) follows a time-traveling girl on the run with her father in a bleak near future. Laisve , an enchanted and motherless girl, keeps company with worms and whales as she flees with her single father from "Raids" perpetrated by ICE-like squads, "armed men in vans snaking like killer whales through the streets" of The Brook, a city suffused by water and comprising much of what appears to be Brooklyn and lower Manhattan. But Laisve has a gift; she is a "carrier," able to move through time with the aid of a talking box turtle and reach fellow outsiders hailing from various points in history, arriving to help unroot them from the nightmares of their time. There is Mikael, the imprisoned "floating boy" of possibly criminal character in 1995; the early 21st century Mohawk laborer Joseph, filled with visions of his people; the 19th-century sculptor Frédéric, designer of the Statue of Liberty (the arduous construction of which becomes a recurring motif); and Aurora, who loses a leg during the Civil War and later becomes a sex worker. As Laisve visits different periods of the region's history, there are taxonomies of beasts and bugs, and meditations on Amazonian fungi that give way to histories of vanished peoples and their imprint on the land they worked. "Stories are quantum," as Laisve narrates, and Yuknavitch preserves the courage and eccentricity of her subjects by subverting any impulse toward rote orthodox storytelling. Instead, she offers a cracked mirror, an untethered dream, and a catch-all for myriad strands of history through which the reader may pleasurably roam free. This is the author's best yet. (June)

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Yuknavitch, L. (2022). Thrust: A Novel . Penguin Publishing Group.

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

Yuknavitch, Lidia. 2022. Thrust: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group.

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

Yuknavitch, Lidia. Thrust: A Novel Penguin Publishing Group, 2022.

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Yuknavitch, L. (2022). Thrust: a novel. Penguin Publishing Group.

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Yuknavitch, Lidia. Thrust: A Novel Penguin Publishing Group, 2022.

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