Description: "Riveting, ravishing, and crazy deep, The Book of Joan is as ferociously intelligent as it is heart-wrenchingly humane, as generous as it is relentless, as irresistible as it is important. In other words, it's classic Lidia Yuknavitch: genius." - Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild "Dazzling. A post-apocalyptic literary tour de force, The Book of Joan begs for buzz. There is so much here that is transgressive and badass and nervy and transformational. Here is a Katniss Everdeen for grown-ups." - Chelsea Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Let Me Go, Kill You Twice and The Night Season "Lidia Yuknavitch's new book has left me throttled and close to speechless. Speculative doesn't begin to describe this sexy, imaginative and thoroughly original work. Atwood, LeGuin and Lessing come to mind, but Yuknavitch's sensibility, which includes her casual ability to completely blow your mind, is all her own." - Karen Karbo, New York Times bestselling author of Julia Child Rules and How Georgia Became O'Keeffe "Reading The Book of Joan is a meditation on art and sex and war. My brain is full-bloomed. Get ready, it's glorious." - Amber Tamblyn, author of Dark Sparkler "Yuknavitch has emerged as a trailblazing literary voice that spans genres and dives deep into themes of gender, sexuality, art, violence, and transcendence." - Suleika Jaouad, Lenny Letter "While delivering an entirely new world and also putting forth a powerful treatise on the way we live now, The Book of Joan is one of those dystopian novels that you can't help thinking might be too eerily real to be just fiction." - Newsweek "A dystopian story of power that questions what it means to be human." - Real Simple "In this brilliant and incendiary new novel, mixing realism and fabulism, Earth, circa 2049, has been devastated by global warming and war; the wealthy live on a suborbital complex ruled by a billionaire celebrity turned dictator." - New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice "Lidia Yukanavitch is skilled at writing poetically about the human body, and about nature, so this book her first foray into science fiction makes sense. It's a retelling of the story of Joan of Arc, but in a world ravaged by radiation, and with few land-based survivors." - Huffington Post, 17 Spine-Tingling New Books for Fans of Dystopia "Joan [of Arc] offers herself as the perfect figure for Yuknavitch's new novel. Translated into a dystopian future, this New Joan of Dirt serves as emblem for all the stalwart commoners in whose crushing defeat lies a kind of inviolate spiritual victory. . . . [The Book of Joan] offers a wealth of pathos, with plenty of resonant excruciations and some disturbing meditations on humanity's place in creation . . . [It] concludes in a bold and satisfying apotheosis like some legend out of The Golden Bough and reaffirms that even amid utter devastation and ruin, hope can still blossom." - Washington Post "The Book of Joan is ferocious and indelible, grappling with what it means to love in the midst of violence; and how we transform fury, agony, and history into art. It is huge in its scope, moving seamlessly, quantumly, between dirt and cosmos, and through the wormholes of nonlinear time." - Electric Literature "Stunning.... Yuknavitch understands that our collective narrative can either destroy or redeem us, and the outcome depends not just on who's telling it, but also on who's listening." - O, The Oprah Magazine

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