PositiveGuernicaIf Pew is a criticism of religion in its social and institutional forms, it is also a fairly religious book ... both a social novel, dramatizing prejudice and the need to control, and a psychological one, concerned with the construction of the self. The book implicates the one in the other. Pew shows how the collective psyche of a society identifies and orders our bodies, and in so doing limits our knowledge of ourselves. Lacey is interested in asking questions beyond those limits ... urges us to see past appearances.
