All who go do not return : a memoir
(2015)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/DEEN,S

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir MEMOIR/DEEN,S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2015]
DESCRIPTION

310 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
1555977057, 9781555977054 :, 9781555977054
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world--only that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgression--turning on the radio--is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world