This daring new literary work defies the conventions of memoir by questioning the very nature of memory and the traditional autonomous subject.  Combining prose, poetry, psychology, and philosophy, Speak, Hands conveys an extraordinary personal struggle that could not have been told with common literary devices. Lillian Moats negotiates this complex narrative using four inner voices which challenge the distinctions between mind and body, subject and object, consciousness and the unconscious.  Speak, Hands breaks through verbal bounds to transport us into the  wordless realms of meditation and gesture.  “Once again, Moats takes her readers on a profoundly moving voyage of self-discovery.  Through her eloquent prose and poetry and her compelling, dexterous manifestations of voice, she shares her pain, explorations, insights, and revelations."  Kathleen E. McCrone, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, University of Windsor