Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood [Kindle Edition] Author: Leah Vincent | Language: English | ISBN:
B00E736GX6 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Download books file now Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood [Kindle Edition] Epub Free for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link In the vein of Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted, an electrifying memoir about a young woman's promiscuous and self-destructive spiral after being cast out of her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family
Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, a fundamentalist sect of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. As the daughter of an influential rabbi, Leah and her ten siblings were raised to worship two things: God and the men who ruled their world. But the tradition-bound future Leah envisioned for herself was cut short when, at sixteen, she was caught exchanging letters with a male friend, a violation of religious law that forbids contact between members of the opposite sex. Leah's parents were unforgiving. Afraid, in part, that her behavior would affect the marriage prospects of their other children, they put her on a plane and cut off ties. Cast out in New York City, without a father or husband tethering her to the Orthodox community, Leah was unprepared to navigate the freedoms of secular life. She spent the next few years using her sexuality as a way of attracting the male approval she had been conditioned to seek out as a child, while becoming increasingly unfaithful to the religious dogma of her past. Fast-paced, mesmerizing, and brutally honest, Cut Me Loose tells the story of one woman's harrowing struggle to define herself as an individual. Through Leah's eyes, we confront not only the oppressive world of religious fundamentalism, but also the broader issues that face even the most secular young women as they grapple with sexuality and identity. Direct download links available for Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood [Kindle Edition] Epub Free
- File Size: 1480 KB
- Print Length: 242 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 038553809X
- Publisher: Nan A. Talese (January 21, 2014)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00E736GX6
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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After reading the negative reviews, I had to read this book and judge for myself. I am in general reluctant to share details of my own life online, but the misrepresentations of Ms Vincent as a liar and even that she is mentally unstable (from one reviewer who claims to know her family) are without foundation. I feel I must stand up for the truth as I see it. And Ms Vincent speaks the truth.
I read the entire book in a single sitting - it is extremely well-written and it is fascinating, helping the reader understand the thinking of someone who has lost their family and identity undertaking self-destructive behaviours. It became very painful to read - especially how she was taken advantage of by men and had no idea how to interact with them - because it is a deeply authentic account.
How do I know? Because I had the same Yeshivish upbringing as Leah's. Everything from the small details and philosophy of her upbringing is true. There is no embellishment.
With the important qualifier that in every community there is variation and that not all families are like Leah's, the fact is that many are. So while Leah's upbringing does not tar the entire ultra Orthodox community, it is also a valid account of her own experience for her own family and life, and her experience is representative of many ultra Orthodox people's experiences.
Many ultra-Orthodox Jewish parents would have reacted with shunning at a female teenager's natural baby steps toward developing their own identity, like asserting things like wanting to go to college, and wearing a tight sweater. The slightest deviation from draconian modesty rules can make a girl the equivalent of a prostitute in this black and white world where there is only one path to God.
On the surface, this book is a memoir of a girl being raised in what some would refer to as an "ultra-orthodox" or Yeshivish community. For those in the Jewish community, she certainly gives enough details in the book to deduce the identity of her family (or anybody good enough with Google who isn't Jewish). The surprising part of the story for many is that she is not writing of an insular community like Boro Park or New Square, but rather growing up in what the outside world might call a more modern seeming yeshivish family. When she is caught writing letters to a boy, her parents take her out of high school to enroll her in a seminary for older women who are learning about their religion. She gets no high school education, and is then left on her own in New York with a child's understanding of the world. Leah writes with a raw and vivid style that is certainly compelling and will keep you drawn into the narrative. I read from start to finish and could not put it down. That being said, it was not the greatest work of its genre as I will explain.
First, I was confused in comparing the book as written to her TV interviews. Some of the incidents from her Jamaican drug-dealer boyfriend to her encounter on CraigsList are described quite differently in the book than she describes them on TV. Some of this might just be sensationalism for TV, so I won't fault it only in that I was confused while reading the book which incidents matched with the ones I heard her describe before.
If you are a more sensitive reader, be aware that the book is extremely graphic. You may want to just watch her interviews on YouTube rather than actually read some of her more vivid descriptions of her random sexual encounters.
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