Thrust cover art

Thrust

 Preview
This Season's Biggest Deal

$0.99/mo for 3 months + $20 Audible bonus voucher

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.
Get this deal
Offer ends on 28 December, 2026.
More purchase options

Thrust

By: Lidia Yuknavitch
Narrated by: Austin Ku, Cassandra Campbell, Darrell Dennis, Dominique Franceschi, Graham Halstead, Karen Murray, Kathleen Gati, Natasha Soudek, Omar Leyva, Robbie Daymond, Ron Butler, TL Thompson
Get this deal

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 28 December, 2026. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $25.55

Buy Now for $25.55

This Season's Biggest Deal | $0.99/mo for 3 months + $20 Audible bonus

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo. after 3 months - terms apply.
Summary

It is 2085 and Laisve is learning to use the ancient waterways to travel through water and time. Sifting through the detritus of a fallen city known as The Brook, she discovers a talisman that will connect her with people from the past two centuries, including a squad of laborers at work on a huge, national monument to liberty.

As waters rise and a police state encroaches, Laisve must find her way back to the early days of her imperfect country, to forge a bond that might save all their lives – and their shared dream of freedom.

Thrust is a dazzling novel of body, spirit and survival, and Lidia Yuknavitch’s lyrical, richly atmospheric storytelling and sharp-eyed writing is entirely transportive.

 Dystopian Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Time Travel Freedom

Critic Reviews

"A long, disturbing dream . . . a fascinating, unsettling ride"
"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"
"An indignant and impressive novel"
"Moving and incisive"
"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"
"[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"
"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)
"[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"
"A unique dystopian tale, one much more than a straightforward calamity-charged premonition"
"A complex novel of great imagination . . . profound, thought-provoking and deeply beautiful"
No reviews yet
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.