Talking animals and a chorus of characters undergird the Portland author’s ‘Thrust,’ which takes an unflinching look at American history, borders, and boundaries.
In Lidia Yuknavitch’s novel “Thrust,” a myriad of species across different points in time conceive an ocean of characters.
While reading this novel, I was struck by how much research you wove throughout, from facts about canning to linguistics. What was the first spark for this book?I may have missed my calling to be some kind of researcher or librarian where you sit in a room and treat all of human history as an archeological dig, because I love research. But when I say research, I mean I’m going in there with a creative mind and heart.
The third thing to say would be I think of language like I think of the ocean. Language, kind of like the imagination, isn’t ordered. It’s ordered by humans. So language as a sign system, could be thought of as free-floating and wavelike and filled with all the symbols and words and ideas. But then we bring grammar and syntax and diction and meaning making and connotation and denotation, we take the ocean of sign system and make it into sentences and words, meanings.
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