It’s brilliant, respectful, insightful and most of all hopeful.” “This memoir of faith, struggle and rebirth will have you on the edge of your seat. Leah Lax, Author of Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home Linda Curtis stunningly captures the loss and necessary courage it takes to grow into a unique individual in a rubber stamp world, and the stubborn thwarted love that lives on. “I have met dozens of exiled young people shunned for their crime of finding the world and daring to think freely who are mired in longing for their religious families. “Shunned addresses universal themes of belonging, connection, meaning, and family togetherness it will resonate across faith lines.” Beyond providing an eye-opening look at her former religious community, this memoir subtly encourages readers to challenge childhood views in search of chosen beliefs.” The author’s radical transformation-from dogmatism to relativism and from timidity to self-assurance-unfolds gradually. “A profound, at times fascinating, personal transformation told with meticulous detail. “This is a moving portrait of one woman’s life as a Jehovah’s Witness and her painful but liberating realization that she must give up her faith.” an extraordinary, riveting and unreservedly recommended read from first page to last.” “An inherently compelling and candidly revealing memoir.
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