UNORTHODOX - 978-1-9821-4820-1
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DEBORAH FELDMAN
Was born and raised in the Hasidic community of Satmar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her native language is Yiddish. She studied literature at Sarah Lawrence College before publishing the New York Times Bestselling memoir, UNORTHODOX: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots Simon and Schuster, 2012 which was adapted as an Emmy-award-wining series for Netflix in 2020. Deborah lives in Berlin, Germany with her fifteen-year-old son; her work has been translated into twenty-five languages. Her second book will be published in an updated and expanded edition titled Exodus, Revisited by Plume on August 31, 2021. Her first German-language novel, Miriam, will be published by Luchterhand Verlag in 2022.
SINOPSIS
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.
