Description

Laisve is a refugee in a destroyed city-island, hunted in Raids and haunted by the spirits of her drowned mother and brother. She dives into the river and finds herself travelling between times and waterways in a race to rescue the future – and past – of other lost children.

A Lenape Nation iron-walker, a Dominican nun, a scarred acrobat and a piebald man are risking their lives constructing a colossal monument to freedom for a young and bustling nation. But exactly what – and whom – will that liberty represent?

As Laisve drifts into their histories, she schools seekers in the ways of dreams, love and the ultimate aim of liberty – to free the next generation from the chains of this one.

Publisher Review

The blistering and visionary latest from 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 * * Publishers Weekly * * Moving and incisive * * Time * * [This] powerful, braided fable unites workers of the world across time and space and class to start conceiving of a better world . . . Yuknavitch is firmly in control * * Los Angeles Times * * There's so much that feels deeply present about Yuknavitch's latest novel: the ever-expanding police state, lower Manhattan under water, and a woman on a mission to rescue other vulnerable women. Yuknavitch's words are incantations, and Thrust is a triumph * * Elle * * This weirdly wonderful [novel] on the surveillance state, climate change, and what it means to have agency as a woman in the world will throw your mind for a loop in the best way. * * Good Housekeeping * * A stunningly beautiful novel about the power of storytelling to make sense of the world we are living in and the one we might just be barreling toward * * The Daily Beast * * A complex novel of great imagination . . . profound, thought-provoking, and deeply beautiful * * Shelf Awareness * * Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins - vulnerable humans leading lives of challenge and transcendence * * The Millions * * Thrust is kinky, queer, and razor sharp . . . a stunning novel about the future we might be able to create if we listen to voices we've previously ignored . . . and about being willing to start again * * Booklist * * 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 . . . . Complex, ambitious, and unafraid to earnestly love-and critique-America and its most dearly held principles * * Kirkus Reviews * *