Let Me Look at You

Let Me Look at You is an original collection of eight nonfiction prose pieces that employ the techniques of memoir and personal essay to explore the narrator's experience of faith, lost and gained. The collection attempts to understand the ways in which violence, sex, family, memory, and the body intersect with traditional Protestant Christian faith. Collectively, the pieces celebrate the "sacred secular," or those things which fill the voids left by a crisis of faith. Using both personal narrative and expository research, the pieces juxtapose language and subjects to create meaning. Let Me Look at You explores topics ranging from Jungian dream analysis to the physiological effects of caffeine, from the umbilical cord to Catholic mysticism, to create a portrait of one young woman's experience of leaving the "walled garden" of religion.