Uncovered by Leah Lax, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Writers' League of Texas Discovery AwardWordwrite AwardFinalist: Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize, May Sarton Award, Independent Publisher Book Award, Chautauqua Prizea Redbook Magazine and Good Housekeeping Best of the YearHouston Chronicle #1 PickUncoveredis the first memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the Hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her liberal, secular home to become a Hasidic Jew, then plumbs the nuances of her arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and Hasidic motherhood, as her creative, sexual, and spiritual longings shimmer beneath the surface. | Uncovered by Leah Lax, Paperback | Indigo Chapters