Feldman's voice resonates throughout." - The Jewish Daily Forward, "Eloquent, appealing, and just emotional enough. Teens will devour this candid, detailed memoir of an insular way of life so unlike that of the surrounding society." -School Library Journal, "Unorthodox is a fascinating book. Feldman bravely lays her soul bare, unflinchingly sharing intimate thoughts and ideas unthinkable within the deeply religious existence of the Satmars. No doubt girls all over Brooklyn are buying this book, hiding it under their mattresses, reading it after lights out-and contemplating, perhaps for the first time, their own escape.", "Compulsively readable, Unorthodox relates a unique coming-of-age story that manages to speak personally to anyone who has ever felt like an outsider in her own life. Both her escape and her decision to tell her story are magnificent acts of courage." -Anouk Markovits, author of I Am Forbidden, "Compulsively readable, Unorthodox relates a unique coming-of-age story that manages to speak personally to anyone who has ever felt like an outsider in her own life." - School Library Journal, "Eloquent, appealing, and just emotional enough. Unorthodox is harrowing, yet triumphant." -Jeannette Walls, #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses, " is an extraordinary story of struggle and dream. But she found the pluck and determination needed to make the break from that world and has written a brave, riveting account of her journey. "Deborah Feldman was raised in an insular, oppressive world where she was taught that, as a woman, she wasn't capable of independent thought.
Remarkable and fascinating, this "sensitive and memorable coming-of-age story" ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ) is one you won't be able to put down. Trapped as a teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah's desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, regardless of the obstacles, she would have to forge a path-for herself and her son-to happiness and freedom. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. Now a Netflix original series Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.
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