Watch How We Walk

Alternating between a womanÓ³ childhood in a small town and as an adult in the city, this novel traces a Jehovah Witness familyÓ³ 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 JehovahÓ³ WitnessesÒ insular lifestyle, rigid codes of conduct, and tenets of their faith haunt her older...
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Alternating between a womanÓ³ childhood in a small town and as an adult in the city, this novel traces a Jehovah Witness familyÓ³ 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 JehovahÓ³ WitnessesÒ 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 sisterÓ³ identity, believing that Lenora is controlling her actions. Ultimately, Emily finds release through self-mutilation. The narrative offers a haunting, cutting exploration of the JehovahÓ³ Witness practice and practical impact of Ô¤isfellowshipping,Ô proselytization, and cultural abstinence, as well as their attitude toward the Ô·orldlingsÔ outside of their faith. Sparse, vivid, menacingly suspenseful, and darkly humorous, Watch How We Walk simultaneously engages on emotional, visceral, and intellectual levels.