I've been reading a lot of fiction lately, and I decided I was in the mood for a change, so I looked in Libby for a non-fiction book that was both available now and interesting. Deborah Feldman's memoir of leaving the Satmar Hasidic Jewish community was the answer. It's a fascinating look inside a pocket of life in the U.S. of which I was pretty much unaware. If you liked Tara Westover's Educated, you'll be interested in Unorthodox. You know from early on that both women left their insular religious communities; the interest in their stories is in both how they left and in the inside look at the communities they had been a part of. Plus, there's a Netflix miniseries based on Unorthodox, which maybe I'll watch at some point. Feldman also wrote a second memoir, Exodus, which picks up (I think) where Unorthodox leaves off. I'll definitely be interested in reading it at some point, though Unorthodox was a very intense read, so I'm ready for a break back into fiction for the moment. But I'd highly recommend this book.
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