Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

Leah Lax

Sep 2016 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Donna Postel

About this audiobook

In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story-beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline prose, Lax details her experiences with arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and motherhood during her years with the Hasidim, and explores how her creative, sexual, and spiritual longings simmer beneath the surface throughout her time there. The first memoir to tell of a gay woman who spent years in the Hasidic fold, Uncovered is the moving story of Lax's journey toward finding a home where she truly belongs.

About the author

Leah Lax has won awards in both fiction and nonfiction, and her work has been included in numerous anthologies and publications, both in print and online. Her work for stage has been reviewed in the New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine, and has been broadcast on NPR.

Donna Postel is fascinated by all kinds of stories and loves telling them. From memoir and biography to literary fiction, romance, mystery, and suspense, Donna uses her innate curiosity, talent, and decades of experience on stage and in the recording studio to bring books to life.