Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots

Abandoned at a young age by her mother, and with a father who is mentally incapable, Deborah Feldman is raised by her grandparents in their Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Though she breaks rules by reading secular library books and religious texts that are for males only, Feldman otherwise fits in remarkably well despite her unusual family background. After her own marriage and the birth of her son, however, she realizes that the Hasidic way of life is not for her.