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Title: Unorthodox
Subtitle: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Author: Deborah Feldman
Narrator: Rachel Botchan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-14-12
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 522 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
In this captivating memoir, Deborah Feldman takes listeners on an eye-opening journey into Orthodox Jewish culture. Raised in the suffocating world of Brooklyns Satmar Hasidim, Feldman was told what to read and who she was allowed to talk to. Married off at 17, she suffered from anxiety and was shamed by an inability to please her older husband. But after giving birth to a son at age 19, Feldman realized it was time to tear up her roots and make her own path in life.
Critic Reviews:
Deborah Feldman was raised in an insular, oppressive world where she was taught that, as a woman, she wasnt capable of independent thought. But she found the pluck and determination needed to make the break from that world and has written a brave, riveting account of her journey.
Unorthodox is harrowing, yet triumphant. (Jeannette Walls, #1 bestselling author of
The Glass Castle and
Half Broke Horses)
Feldman gives us special insight into a closed and repressive world. . . . Her memoir is fresh and tart and utterly absorbing. (
Library Journal)
Nicely written . . . [An] engaging and at times gripping insight into Brooklyn's Hasidic community. (
Publishers Weekly)
