“Beyond the Pages: Lidia Yuknavitch Reveals the Hidden Depths of ‘Reading the Waves'”
LL: Let’s shift and consider this concept of ‘where we’re from?’ I find this such a complex question. Are from where we’re born? Where we live now? Where we lived last? Are we a beautiful and broken conglomeration of all the places we’re ‘from,’ like a stone that’s been rolling around and around and around in the ocean, collecting sediments and minerals…and life? Can you speak into that, please?
LY: Ohhhhhhhhh but I love the way you just enunciated! Are we a beautiful and broken conglomeration of all the places we’re ‘from,’ like a stone that’s been rolling around and around and around in the ocean, collecting sediments and minerals…and life?” What a beautiful and expansive line! YES! The answer is yes. Ha…I mean, if we think of your sentence as a portal, a possible rearrangement of “I was born in San Francisco, California,” or “I lived in Eugene, Oregon” or my mother was from Texas — where we are from changes. Opens. Breathes.
