Proceeding month by month through the year, Feigel sets out to reassess D.H. Lawrence: to find urgent literary companionship; to use him as a guide to rural living and an unexpected (and sometimes rage-inducing) guide to child-rearing; to find a way through his writing to excavate the modern world that she feels he helped bring into being. Tracing the arc of Lawrence s life and delving deep into his writings, she confronts his anger, his passion, his tumultuous vitality.
In the process, she faces some of today s most urgent dilemmas, from climate crisis to secular religion to contemporary sexuality and feminism s ideas about motherhood. And as she watches the seasons change alongside Lawrence, Feigel finds the rhythms of her own life changing in unexpected ways. A dazzling blend of literary criticism, biography and memoir, Look! We Have Come Through! is a spellbinding exhumation of an author, and a compelling manifesto for exposing ourselves to difficult and dangerous views.