Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Traces the author's upbringing in the Hasidic community of Satmar in Brooklyn's Williamsburg, describing the strict rules that governed every aspect of her life, denial of a traditional education and arranged marriage at 17 to a stranger before the birth of her son led to her plan to escape her cloistered world. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.