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. The Book of Joan is a raucous celebration, a searing condemnation, and fiercely imaginative retelling of Joan of Arc's transcendent life. Amber Tamblyn, author of Dark Sparkler. Set in a dystopian future in which Earth has been rendered all but uninhabitable, the action of American author Lidia Yuknavitch’s work of speculative fiction The Book of Joan () takes place primarily aboard a space station called CIEL. There an artist, Christine Pizan, and her friend Trinculo join forces with an Earth-based resistance movement lead by a young woman with special powers, Joan of Dirt. Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 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 3/5.
Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell of Stone Village Productions have won a competitive auction for movie rights to Lidia Yuknavitch's sci-fi novel "The Book of Joan.". The book is a re. Yuknavitch has exhibited a rare gift for writing that concedes little in its quest to be authentic, meaningful and relevant. By adding speculative elements to The Book of Joan, she reaches new heights with even higher stakes: the death or life of our planet." — Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Stunning. Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children (winner of the Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Reader's Choice Award), the novel Dora: A Headcase, and three books of short fiction.
Lidia Yuknavitch’s writing spans expectations and genres. Her national bestselling novel, The Book of Joan was named as a top notable books in the New York Times Book Review, and her national bestselling novel, The Small Backs of Children was the winner of the Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award. 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. The Book of Joan is a raucous celebration, a searing condemnation, and fiercely imaginative retelling of Joan of Arc's transcendent life. Amber Tamblyn, author of Dark Sparkler. In Lidia Yuknavitch's latest novel, The Book of Joan, dystopia is created anew and draws on historical precedent. In the near future, a space station called CIEL circles the dying earth like a.
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