Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home - Sapphic Society

Leah Lax

Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

$16.95
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A naïve lesbian teen in Texas is drawn into a group of Hassidic Jews with their offers of refuge from her troubled family and promises...

A naïve lesbian teen in Texas is drawn into a group of Hassidic Jews with their offers of refuge from her troubled family and promises of eternal love. She becomes one of them, but ultimately, as a forty-something woman, comes to reject everything she has lived for three decades in order to be who she truly is.

Leah Lax has won awards in both fiction and nonfiction and her work has been included in numerous anthologies and publications, print and online--including Dame, Lilith, and Salon. Her work for stage has been reviewed in The New York Times, and Rolling Stone magazine, and has been broadcast on NPR. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston.

Pages
256
Publisher
She Writes Press
Publication Date
Content
ISBN
9781631529955

Tags: Biography, Book, Jewish, Lesbian, Lgbtq+, Memoir, Religion, Womens interest, Womens issues

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