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Watch how we walk a novel
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- ISBN: 9781770904682
- ISBN: 1770904689
- ISBN: 9781770904699
- ISBN: 1770904697
- ISBN: 1770411275 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9781770411272 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (pages) - Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press / MisFit, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
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| Subject: | Jehovah's Witnesses -- Fiction Cutting (Self-mutilation) -- Fiction Fiction FICTION -- General Cutting (Self-mutilation) Jehovah's Witnesses FICTION |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Fiction. |
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Alternating between a womanâs childhood in a small town and as an adult in the city, this novel traces a Jehovah Witness familyâs 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 Jehovahâs Witnessesâ 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 sisterâs identity, believing that Lenora is controlling her actions. Ultimately, Emily finds release through self-mutilation. The narrative offers a haunting, cutting exploration of the Jehovahâs Witness practice and practical impact of âdisfellowshipping,â proselytization, and cultural abstinence, as well as their attitude toward the âworldlingsâ outside of their faith. Sparse, vivid, menacingly suspenseful, and darkly humorous, Watch How We Walk simultaneously engages on emotional, visceral, and intellectual levels.
- Perseus PublishingWhen Emily was a little girl, all she wanted to be when she grew up was a Full-Time Pioneer; in her Jehovahâs Witness family, the only imaginable future is a life of knocking on doors and handing out Watchtower magazines. But Emily starts to challenge her upbringing. She becomes closer to her closeted uncle, Tyler, as her older sister, Lenora, hangs out with boys, wears makeup, and gets a startling new haircut. After Lenora disappears, everything changes for Emily, and as she deals with her mental devastation she is forced to consider a different future.
Alternating between Emilyâs life as a child and her adult life in the city, Watch How We Walk offers a haunting, cutting exploration of ?disfellowshipping,â proselytization, and cultural abstinence, as well as the Jehovahâs Witness attitude towards the ?worldlingsâ outside of their faith. Sparse, vivid, suspenseful, and darkly humorous, Jennifer LoveGroveâs debut novel is an emotional and visceral look inside an isolationist religion through the eyes of the unforgettable Emily.
