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Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.
As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Trapped as a teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah’s desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, regardless of the obstacles, she would have to forge a path—for herself and her son—to happiness and freedom.
Remarkable and fascinating, this “sensitive and memorable coming-of-age story” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) is one you won’t be able to put down.
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir
of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the
tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape,
featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly
religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up
under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything
from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she
was allowed to read. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing,
Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen
moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane
Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative
way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Trapped as a
teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a
man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah's desires and her
responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until
she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, regardless of the
obstacles, she would have to forge a path-for herself and her
son-to happiness and freedom. Remarkable and fascinating, this
"sensitive and memorable coming-of-age story" (Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette) is one you won't be able to put down.
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Anzia Yezierska; Foreword by Deborah Feldman
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A timeless American novel about an immigrant girl growing up on the
Lower East Side who dares to challenge her Orthodox Jewish
family’s narrow conceptions of a woman’s place in the world,
featuring a new foreword by the author of the New York Times
bestseller Unorthodox―the basis for the hit Netflix series―and
cover art by New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck A Penguin Classic
The youngest of four daughters in a family that left Poland in the
1920s for the crowded tenements of New York City’s Lower East
Side, Sara Smolinsky has seen her sisters resign themselves, under
their rabbi father’s iron fist, to loveless marriages and empty
futures. They are “bread givers,” working to feed the family
while their father studies the Torah―according to which, as their
father reminds them, a woman without her father or husband is
“less than nothing.” But Sara hungers for more. In defiance of
her father, she breaks free, escaping home to see what the American
dream holds for her in this poignant coming-of-age tale and
striking portrait of feminist rebellion.
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