Watch How We Walk, Jennifer Lovegrove
Watch How We Walk, Jennifer Lovegrove
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Watch How We Walk

Author: Jennifer Lovegrove

Narrator: Morgan Hallett

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/11/2014

Categories: Fiction, Humorous


Synopsis

Alternating between a woman' s childhood in a small town and as an adult in the city, this novel traces a Jehovah Witness family' s 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 Jehovah' s 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 sister' s identity, believing that Lenora is controlling her actions. Ultimately, Emily finds release through self-mutilation. The narrative offers a haunting, cutting exploration of the Jehovah' s 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bree on September 29, 2013

I went into reading this with a little bit of worry – you see, I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, so I was worried that this would be one of those books with all the details wrong and it would drive me crazy. But, thankfully this story, while fictional, reads as if it was my childhood – or that of......more

Goodreads review by Krista on November 03, 2014

The first line was small, timid, and red. I was scared, but it was the only way through. I breathed deeply and drew the line longer, pushed harder, and it bloomed. It hurt. I clenched my teeth, then smiled. I etched another line, perpendicular to the first. It burned, clear and pure, both pain an......more