An electrifying memoir about a young woman s self-destructive spiral after being cast out by her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family
In the vein of Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted, this brutally honest memoir tells the story of one woman s struggle to define herself as an individual. Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect that shuns the modern world. When, at sixteen, Leah was caught exchanging letters with a boy breaking a religious ban on contact between the sexes her family cut all ties. Sent to live on her own in New York...