Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home by Leah Lax

Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

Leah Lax

256 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir religion challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

Uncovered is the only memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Leah Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her secular home to become a hasidic Jew, then plumbs the nuances of her arrang...

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emotional 66%
inspiring 33%

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slow 33%

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