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  • Uncovered

  • How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
  • By: Leah Lax
  • Narrated by: Donna Postel
  • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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By: Leah Lax
Narrated by: Donna Postel
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Summary

In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story - beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a 40-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for 30 years in order to achieve personal freedom.

In understated, crystalline prose, Lax details her experiences with arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and motherhood during her years with the Hasidim and explores how her creative, sexual, and spiritual longings simmered beneath the surface throughout her time there. The first memoir to tell of a gay woman who spent years in the Hasidic fold, Uncovered is the moving story of Lax's journey toward finding a home where she truly belongs.

©2015 Leah Lax (P)2016 Tantor
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Categories: LGBTQ+
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"Fascinating and insightful" ( Booklist)

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Beautifully written and read

A fantastic glimpse into the lives of orthodox Jews, and in particular of a woman who did not fit in and tried to find herself.

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