Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

A memoir in which the performance artist Marina Abramović, written with James Kaplan, recounts her life from childhood in postwar Yugoslavia to her international career.

The book follows her upbringing under Tito's regime as the child of Communist war-hero parents, her early performances, and the twelve-year collaboration with the artist Ulay that ended on the Great Wall of China. It reaches her 2010 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, where more than 750,000 people queued to sit across from her in a durational piece. Crown Archetype published it in October 2016, and Booklist and Publishers Weekly both gave it starred reviews.

Abramović is known for performances that push the body and emotions to their limits. The memoir is her own account of the life behind that work. She divides her time between New York and the Hudson Valley.