Thrust: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• [The] most mind-blowing book about America I’ve ever inhaled. . . . I read Thrust in a state of flustered fascination and finished longing to dream it again.

  — Ron Charles, Washington Post

• 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

• An indignant and impressive novel.

  — Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times

• Yuknavitch breaks down barriers of time and space, of history and language, in a visceral critique of America’s founding ideals and its present failures.

  — The New Yorker

• Thrust is the culmination of everything she has been writing toward, a blistering excoriation of power structures that also honors the resilience of those who fight back. . . . It’s a book that uses history and America as a jumping-off point to dissolve borders and boundaries.

  — Michele Filgate, Los Angeles Times

• Moving and incisive.

  — Time

• A fascinating, unsettling ride.

  — The Guardian

• [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

• The utterly gripping story of a drowned world . . . I read with wonder, sometimes also with tears, and always with hope for our own hurting world. I feel fierce admiration for what Yuknavitch has achieved in this amazing book.

  — Barbara J. King, author of How Animals Grieve

• Complex, enthralling . . . page-turning . . An epic story of dystopia and hope, and ultimately about the power of storytelling.

  — Sarah Neilson, Shondaland

• An epic fable [that] operates more like a poem.

  — Kate Dwyer, The New York Times

• Cinematic and inviting . . . it could be the best thing you read this year.

  — Philadelphia Inquirer

• A dizzily interlacing view of American history.

  — New York

• ”[A] forceful, fluid, erotic new novel.

  — Boston Globe

• A dazzling new novel that marks another imaginative feat in a career with no shortage of them. A lyrical and dexterous critique of a future America ravaged by climate change and surveillance, Thrust is both of the moment and utterly timeless.

  — Chicago Review of Books

• Prescient, elegiac, and epic. . . . This book is a mighty lament for what we are losing; it’s also a proposition about what we might become, how we might learn to listen differently, and how water rearranges things, including history.

  — The Irish Times

• 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

• An intelligently affecting story that successfully walks the fine line between topical issues, history and science fiction.

  — Buzz

• A book that explores the big, serious issues of exploitation, climate change, and freedom through a rich web of kink, humor, and nature. There’s so much going on in this novel, and it all comes together in such magnificent, incredible ways.

  — BookRiot

• Chronicles violences big and small that have shaped the course of humanity [and] offers hope in the idea that stories, ever-changing, have the power to carry Laisvė—and others—somewhere new.

  — Electric Literature

• [Yuknavitch]’s world-building powers are in full force.

  — LitHub

• A complex novel of great imagination. . . profound, thought-provoking, and deeply beautiful.

  — Shelf Awareness

• Blistering and visionary . . . This is the author’s best yet.

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review) 

• 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 (starred review)

• Thrust is alarmingly trenchant—and a hell of a wild ride. Daring, dazzling, and earth-splitting, this is a book to take in wide-eyed.

  —  Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers