Uncovered
How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Judaism, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Leah Lax | ISBN: | 9781631529962 |
| Publisher: | She Writes Press | Publication: | August 28, 2015 |
| Imprint: | She Writes Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Leah Lax |
| ISBN: | 9781631529962 |
| Publisher: | She Writes Press |
| Publication: | August 28, 2015 |
| Imprint: | She Writes Press |
| Language: | English |
Writers' League of Texas Discovery Award
Wordwrite Award
Finalist: Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize, May Sarton Award, Independent Publisher Book Award, Chautauqua Prize
a Redbook Magazine and Good Housekeeping Best of the Year
Houston Chronicle #1 Pick
Uncovered is the first memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the Hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her liberal, secular home to become a Hasidic Jew, then plumbs the nuances of her arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and Hasidic motherhood, as her creative, sexual, and spiritual longings shimmer beneath the surface.
Writers' League of Texas Discovery Award
Wordwrite Award
Finalist: Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize, May Sarton Award, Independent Publisher Book Award, Chautauqua Prize
a Redbook Magazine and Good Housekeeping Best of the Year
Houston Chronicle #1 Pick
Uncovered is the first memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the Hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her liberal, secular home to become a Hasidic Jew, then plumbs the nuances of her arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and Hasidic motherhood, as her creative, sexual, and spiritual longings shimmer beneath the surface.
