The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch

This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch
expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the
family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing
that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of
extreme grief on a young woman's developing sexuality that some define as
untraditional because of her attraction to both men and women. Her emergence as
a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey of
addiction, self-destruction, and ultimately survival that finally comes in the
shape of love and motherhood.