Uncovered

How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

By: Leah Lax

Narrated by: Donna Postel

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 40-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for 30 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 simmered 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.

©2015 Leah Lax (P)2016 Tantor

Critic reviews

"Fascinating and insightful" ( Booklist)

Woman’s road to realization

Loved everything! I shared many of her thoughts. I am finally learning and loving myself, no matter what.

Loved this book

A beautiful memoir about love and faith and family and community and freedom. About the need to find oneself…above all else.

A must read for anyone interested in orthodoxy

Leah is a stunningly brave woman. Her story is tremendous. It is sorrowful when it ends! Her journey is uplifting; and her orthodox husband was a kind man, unlike what I have read about many such men. You will not regret this read.

Wow!!!

Since I was a little girl in a yeshiva kindergarten, I have been fascinated with chasidim. This book was an answer to many of my feelings. I loved the wonderful narration.

Thoughtful look into Orthodox Judaism

I truly enjoyed the thoughts and information given in this book. The reader was great. As a previous person wrote, the book needed some editing. However, I listened to the entire thing and enjoyed the expansion of my horizons on this topic.