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

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

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

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

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{4B1BDF82-1661-47F1-A757-34B2245B8091}IMG100.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1523-1/{4B1BDF82-1661-47F1-A757-34B2245B8091}IMG200.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1523-1/{4B1BDF82-1661-47F1-A757-34B2245B8091}IMG150.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1523-1/{4B1BDF82-1661-47F1-A757-34B2245B8091}IMG400.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780525534921
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ASIN
        • value: B09H2L2FZF
   • name: Kindle Book
   • id: ebook-kindle
3. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780525534921
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • id: ebook-overdrive

mediaType

eBook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Lidia Yuknavitch

title

Thrust

dateAdded

2022-06-23T23:18:00Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=7002697
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Thrust A Novel

crossRefId

7002697

subtitle

A Novel

id

4B1BDF82-1661-47F1-A757-34B2245B8091

starRating

2.9

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • fileName: Thrust_9780525534921_7002697
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 6741861
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780525534921
   • rights:
     1. • type: Copying
        • value: 0
     2. • type: Printing
        • value: 0
     3. • type: Lending
        • value: 0
     4. • type: ReadAloud
        • value: 0
     5. • type: ExpirationRights
        • value: 0
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
   • onSaleDate: 6/28/2022
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4b1bdf82-1661-47f1-a757-34b2245b8091&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • fileName: Thrust_7002697
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ASIN
        • value: B09H2L2FZF
   • name: Kindle Book
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-kindle
   • onSaleDate: 6/28/2022
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4b1bdf82-1661-47f1-a757-34b2245b8091&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
3. • fileName: Thrust_9780525534921_7002697
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780525534921
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 6/28/2022
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4b1bdf82-1661-47f1-a757-34b2245b8091&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: Political
2. • value: dystopian
3. • value: politics
4. • value: literary fiction
5. • value: War
6. • value: sci fi
7. • value: Time Travel
8. • value: Fiction
9. • value: novels
10. • value: Military
11. • value: trauma
12. • value: Civil War
13. • value: Alternative History
14. • value: Historical Fiction
15. • value: Science Fiction
16. • value: Election
17. • value: dystopia
18. • value: sci-fi
19. • value: literature
20. • value: Alternate History
21. • value: fiction books
22. • value: fantasy
23. • value: Literary
24. • value: science fiction books
25. • value: sci fi books
26. • value: dystopian fiction
27. • value: political books
28. • value: dystopian books
29. • value: historical fiction novels
30. • value: book of joan
31. • value: chronology of water
32. • value: verge
33. • value: alternate history books
34. • value: books fiction
35. • value: fiction books best sellers
36. • value: the small backs of children

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Yuknavitch, Lidia
   • name: Lidia Yuknavitch

imprint

Riverhead Books

publishDate

2022-06-28T00:00:00-04:00

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Thrust

fullDescription

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
THRUST 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 Makkai
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
As 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 history
Lidia 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 Laisvė, 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, Laisvė 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.

reviews

1. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     January 1, 2022
     

     International award winner Cercas expands to literary suspense inEven the Darkest Night, featuring a young ex-con who read Les Mis�rables in jail and after the murder of his sex-worker mother joins the Barcelona police and is sent to investigate a particularly brutal double murder outside the city. In another genre blender, the New York Times best-selling Crosley purveys humor, psychological twistiness, and strong writing to create what could be a Cult Classic featuring a woman who leaves a work dinner to buy cigarettes and encounters a string of ghostly ex-boyfriends (100,000-copy first printing). From Dermansky (e.g., the multi-best-booked The Red Car), Hurricane Girl sends 32-year-old Allison Brody from the West Coast to the East Coast, where she buys a small house on the beach and is promptly hit by a Category 3 hurricane that leaves her with a bleeding head and some very confused thoughts. Following Delicious Foods, which boast PEN/Faulkner and Hurston/Wright Legacy honors, Hannaham's Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta features a woman who transitioned in prison and is finally released after more than two decades, returning apprehensively to a New York she barely knows and a family that doesn't understand her (40,000-copy first printing). Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, Holleran returns after 13 years with The Kingdom of Sand, whose nameless narrator has survived the death of friends from AIDS and his parents from old age and tragedy and is surviving his own end time by enjoying classic films and near-anonymous sexual encounters (50,000-copy first printing). In Laskey's So Happy for You, following Center for Fiction First Novel finalist Under the Rainbow, Robin and Ellie have always been best friends, but queer academic Robin has her doubts about being maid of honor in Ellie's forthcoming wedding. In the medieval-set Lapnova, from ever-edgy, New York Times best-selling Moshfegh, hapless shepherd's son Marek--close only to a midwife feared for her ungodly way with nature--is caught up in the violence surrounding a cruel and corrupt lord. In this follow-up to Newman's multi-starred The Heavens, all The Men in the world mysteriously vanish at once, leaving women both to grieve and to rebuild. Prix Marguerite Yourcenar winner Nganang follows up hisLJ best-booked When the Plums Are Ripe with A Trail of Crab Tracks, whose protagonist slowly reveals his story--and the story of Cameroon's independence--on a prolonged stay with his son in the United States. The dedicated assistant principal at a New Jersey public high school thinks she has a lock on the principal's job when the current principal retires, but alas for the durable protagonist of Perrotta's Election, Tracy Flick [still] Can't Win (300,000-copy first printing). In Thrust, a motherless child from the late 21st century learns that she can connect with people over the last two centuries, from a French sculptor to a dictator's daughter; from Yuknavitch, a Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize finalist.

     Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

2. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     April 15, 2022
     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(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

3. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     Starred review from April 25, 2022
     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.

4. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     Starred review from June 1, 2022
     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, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

popularity

744

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/4b1bdf82-1661-47f1-a757-34b2245b8091/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

4b1bdf82-1661-47f1-a757-34b2245b8091

starRating

3

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{4B1BDF82-1661-47F1-A757-34B2245B8091}IMG100.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1523-1/{4B1BDF82-1661-47F1-A757-34B2245B8091}IMG200.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1523-1/{4B1BDF82-1661-47F1-A757-34B2245B8091}IMG150.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1523-1/{4B1BDF82-1661-47F1-A757-34B2245B8091}IMG400.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Fantasy
2. • value: Fiction
3. • value: Literature
4. • value: Historical Fiction

publishDateText

06/28/2022

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9780525534907

mediaType

eBook

shortDescription

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
THRUST 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 Makkai
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
As 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 history
Lidia 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 Laisvė, a motherless girl from the late 21st century who is learning her...

sortTitle

Thrust A Novel

crossRefId

7002697

subtitle

A Novel

publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

bisacCodes

1. • code: FIC037000
   • description: Fiction / Political
2. • code: FIC040000
   • description: Fiction / Alternative History
3. • code: FIC055000
   • description: Fiction / Dystopian