Watch How We Walk: A Novel

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When Emily a little girl, all she wanted to be when she grew up was a Full-Time Pioneer; in her Jehovah's 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.

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"Watch How We Walk is a thoughtful, well-crafted and impressive debut, and one of my favourite reads of 2013." -- Globe and Mail
"There's blisteringly gorgeous prose in the novel, and the first-person chapters are riveting." -- Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Jennifer LoveGrove is the author of the poetry collections The Dagger Between Her Teeth and I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel. Her writing has been published widely, and she studied creative writing at York University. She divides her time between downtown Toronto and rural Haliburton. Watch How We Walk is her first novel.