num_pages: 320
description: Alternating between a womans childhood in a small town and as an adult in the city this novel traces a Jehovah Witness familys splintering belief system their isolation and the erosion of their relationships. As Emily becomes closer to her closeted Uncle Tyler she begins to challenge her upbringing. Her questions about the Jehovahs Witnesses insular lifestyle rigid codes of conduct and tenets of their faith haunt her older sister Lenora too. When Lenora disappears everything changes and Emily becomes obsessed with taking on her sisters identity believing that Lenora is controlling her actions. Ultimately Emily finds release through self-mutilation. The narrative offers a haunting cutting exploration of the Jehovahs Witness practice and practical impact of disfellowshipping proselytization and cultural abstinence as well as their attitude toward the worldlings outside of their faith. Sparse vivid menacingly suspenseful and darkly humorous Watch How We Walk simultaneously engages on emotional visceral and intellectual levels.
language: English
title: Watch How We Walk
publisher: ECW Press