LITERATURE

Exodus

by Deborah Feldman
Blue Rider. Mar. 2014. 288p. ISBN 9780399162770. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9781101603109. memoir
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Feldman's first memoir, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, which detailed her departure from the Satmar Hasidic community, was met with alternate praise and skepticism. This follow-up traces her efforts to establish a life for herself and her son free of the judgments and ghosts of her past. The journey recounted here is one of many actual miles (in search of her European roots) as well as through many lifestyles (student, mother, girlfriend, outcast) but the shock value of Feldman's first saga is a distant backdrop to this more conventional tale of self-discovery.
VERDICT Feldman's accounts this time around are less controversial, but the notoriety of her first book ensures that many readers will be eager to discover whether she finds happiness outside the community of her heritage. [See Prepub Alert, 10/1/13.]
Reviewed by Staff , Feb 06, 2014
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