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Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
Nan A. Talese
February 2014
On Sale: January 21, 2014
242 pages
ISBN: 038553809X
EAN: 9780385538091
Kindle: B00E736GX6
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In the vein of Prozac Nation and Girl,
Interrupted, an electrifying memoir about a young
woman's promiscuous and self-destructive spiral after being
cast out of her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family
Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, a
fundamentalist sect of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. As the
daughter of an influential rabbi, Leah and her ten siblings
were raised to worship two things: God and the men who ruled
their world. But the tradition-bound future Leah envisioned
for herself was cut short when, at sixteen, she was caught
exchanging letters with a male friend, a violation of
religious law that forbids contact between members of the
opposite sex. Leah's parents were unforgiving. Afraid, in
part, that her behavior would affect the marriage prospects
of their other children, they put her on a plane and cut off
ties. Cast out in New York City, without a father or husband
tethering her to the Orthodox community, Leah was unprepared
to navigate the freedoms of secular life. She spent the next
few years using her sexuality as a way of attracting the
male approval she had been conditioned to seek out as a
child, while becoming increasingly unfaithful to the
religious dogma of her past. Fast-paced, mesmerizing, and
brutally honest, Cut Me Loose tells the story of one
woman's harrowing struggle to define herself as an
individual. Through Leah's eyes, we confront not only the
oppressive world of religious fundamentalism, but also the
broader issues that face even the most secular young women
as they grapple with sexuality and identity.
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