Ortiz is a fearless and generous storyteller, peeling back the layers of memory, exploring her parents’ alcoholism and her years-long illicit relationship with a teacher, never slipping into the easy traps of sentimentality or self pity. “A raw, unflinching memoir, beautifully told, Excavation is a portrait of all that roils beneath the teenage surface, a reminder of the secrets that any kid might be hiding. Paul Lisicky, author of The Burning House and Lawnboy
Ortiz is that kind of writer, and Excavation is a book that’s devastating, funny, tough, broken, and achingly clear all at the same time.” “It’s rare to meet a memoirist who can write about the darkest things without judgment and emotional simplification. Lauren Eggert-Crowe in Conversation with Wendy C. Review by Myriam Gurba for RADAR Productions blog Review of Excavation in The California Journal of Women Writers by Nidia K. Jessica Machado interviews Wendy about Excavation in The Rumpus Ortiz In Conversation with Laura Jean Moore in The Brooklyn RailĮxcavation listed as one of “11 Groundbreaking Books About Women Making History With Their Thinking, Activism, and Courage” in BustleĮxcavation is a recommended book by the Booksmith at SFGateĮxcavation included in “Feminist Summer Reading List (or, Books I Wish High Schools Would Assign For Summer)” at Weird Sister Press Play interview with Madeleine Brand for KCRW, August 2014īEYOND THAT: Wendy C. Ortiz interviewed by Rigoberto González at Critical Mass: The Blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors Los Angeles Times profile by Hector Tobar Review of Excavation in Los Angeles Review of Books Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Dora: A Headcase “The time has finally arrived when women are telling the truth-the hard truths, the messy, glorious, loud, tender, screeching corporeal truths-about their lives as they live them and not lived as we are asked to live them. Emily Rapp, author of The Still Point of the Turning World and Poster Child Most of all, read this book because, like all great literature, and especially the best memoirs, it will make you feel more alive.” You will emerge changed, dazzled, energized, disbelieving and yet a believer.
Readers will find everything here: a gripping and necessary story, luminous writing and an utterly compelling heroine who is both generous and fierce. Buy at Powell’s, Amazon, or your favorite independent bookstore
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