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Kissing girls on Shabbat : a memoir / Sara Glass.
A moving coming-of-age memoir about one young woman's desperate attempt to protect her children and family while also embracing her queer identity in a controlling Hasidic community.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668031216 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: x, 293 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2024.
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| Subject: | Glass, Sara. Gender-nonconforming people. Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Judaism. Jewish lesbians. Sex > Religious aspects > Judaism. Sexual minority community. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 296.086643092 Glass | 31681010377703 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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No longer able to conform to her controlling Hasidic community, the author walked away from the world she knew and onto a path of self-acceptance as she, after a divorce, custody battle, remarriage and a shocking sexual assault, decided to finally be true to herself and embrace her queer identity. - Simon and Schuster
âA searing testament to the strength in claiming oneâs destiny.â âThe Washington Post
A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Educated, about one young womanâs desperate attempt to protect her children and family while also embracing her queer identity in a controlling Hasidic community.
Growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklynâs Borough Park, Sara Glass knew one painful truth: what was expected of her and what she desperately wanted were impossibly opposed. Tormented by her attraction to women and trapped in a loveless arranged marriage, she found herself unable to conform to her religious upbringing and soon, she made the difficult decision to walk away from the world she knew.
Saraâs journey to self-acceptance began with the challenging battle for a divorce and custody of her children, an act that left her on the verge of estrangement from her family and community. Controlled by the fear of losing custody of her two children, she forced herself to remain loyal to the compulsory heteronormativity baked into Hasidic Judaism and married again. But after suffering profound loss and a shocking sexual assault, Sara decided to finally be completely true to herself.
Kissing Girls on Shabbat is not only a love letter to Glassâs children, herself, and her familyâit is an unflinching window into the world of ultra-conservative Orthodox Jewish communities and an inspiring celebration of learning to love yourself.
