Deborah feldman books7/3/2023 I certainly understood that Feldman wanted more out of life but in the end, I wanted more from her narration. The lopsided book traverses her childhood in painstaking detail, which is often redundant and overwrought. Lisa Bonos of The Washington Post wrote that "Feldman seems to render this secretive community authentically I only wish she'd spent a bit more time editing herself. Publishers Weekly called the book an "engaging and at times gripping insight into Brooklyn's Hasidic community". After becoming pregnant, she realized she wanted something more for her child, and planned to leave the community. Feldman said she did not have sex education, claimed she was trapped in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage, and the failure to produce a child dominated her life. The community maintains a code of customs governing everything from what one wears, what is read, and to whom one generally speaks.įeldman's move away from the community started with going to the library and hiding books written in English. Feldman was born into Satmar community in Brooklyn where the primary language is Yiddish.
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