In Can You See Me?, a collection of nine short stories, Elizabeth Wyckoff explores the conflicting desires of young women who long for connection, but struggle to find the balance between concealing and revealing themselves. The female protagonists in these stories simultaneously yearn to be seen, recognized, and acknowledged; and desire to stay hidden, concealed, and protected in their own private worlds. As they move through transitional stages of their lives--from girlhood to womanhood, or from one location to another--they attempt to inhabit the spaces between independence and isolation, connection and detachment, receptiveness and resistance, and visibility and invisibility
