- New York Times bestseller, Social conditions, Religion, Biography
Traces the author's upbringing in a Hasidic community in Brooklyn, describing the strict rules that governed her life, arranged marriage at the age of seventeen, and the birth of her son, which led to her plan to leave and forge her own path in life.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Deborah Feldman
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Secession Verlag für literatur
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783905951790
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 9 have read it and 81 want to.
American-German writer, known for her 2012 autobiography Unorthodox
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Educated 201884% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
Infidel 200779% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
The dog stars 201279% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
Orphan train 201279% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
Go As a River 202379% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
Spare 202378% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
Gathering Blue 200078% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Maid 201977% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Megan Leavey 201785% alikeFilm · Both earnest, classical in form, grave.
The Fire Inside 202482% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, earnest, grave.