Ebook {Epub PDF} Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home by Leah Lax

 · Leah Lax's extraordinary new memoir is Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home. Lax, who is a lesbian, presents a rare and intimate account of a woman's life among the insular Hasidim, the Jewish ultra-orthodox, where she had Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.  · Overview. 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 forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she’s known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline prose, Lax details her experiences with arranged marriage, cult-like faith, and ISBN  · Leah Lax, in her searing book, Uncovered, answered all my questions and more. I related to her reasons for her initial entry into the culture, why she stayed, and how and why she "uncovered." It's not just a book about Hasidic Jews, it's a story we all can relate to about filling deep needs, the drive to fulfill promises and commitments, and /5.

Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home. (1, ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. English. By (author) Leah Lax. Share. Uncovered is the only memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Leah Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her secular home to become a hasidic. 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 something woman. 3 out of 5 stars Overly long. Leah Lax is a feminist, LGBTQ advocate and author of Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home (She Writes Press, Aug). 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.

Uncovered: How I left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home is a riveting tale of Leah Lax's journey into an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, marriage, family, and the acknowledgment after years of soul-searching and angst that she is a lesbian. Leah Lax’s Uncovered is the first memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the Hasidic fold. In understated, crystalline prose, Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her liberal, secular home to become a Hasidic Jew. She plumbs nuances of arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and Hasidic motherhood. Leah Lax will discuss and sign "Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home," 7 p.m. Wednesday, Brazos Bookstore, Bissonnet; or bltadwin.ru