Deborah Feldman was born and raised in the Hasidic community of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of the New York Times Bestselling memoir, UNORTHODOX: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (Simon and Schuster.) Currently, she is working on a follow-up memoir, which finds her embarking on independence as a single woman and mother, finding a new kind of Jewish life for herself, and discovering the far-flung yet familiar community of many like-minded "religious refugees" of all faiths around the world, due out from Blue Rider Press, Penguin, in October of 2013.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Considering I’m publishing a memoir about my Hasidic upbringing this year, I have to wonder why the most interesting stories I could possibly tell have happened to me AFTER my escape. Guess I have to start that second memoir now.
A Blurb for Unorthodox!
“Deborah Feldman was raised in an insular, oppressive world where she was taught that, as a woman, she wasn’t capable of independent thought. 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. Unorthodox is harrowing, yet triumphant.”
— Jeannette Walls, #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses
Read more at Simon and Schuster’s website: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Unorthodox/Deborah-Feldman/9781439187029
