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Unorthodox

by Deborah Feldman

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Popularity 97

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.

New York Times bestsellernyt:combined_print_nonfiction=2012-03-03Social conditionsReligionBiographyJewsHasidimJewish womenReligious lifeSatmar HasidimJews, united states, biographyNew york (n.y.), social conditions