Platinum Readers Circle (Center Point): I Am Forbidden (Hardcover)(Large Print)

from keneumey

Here's a twist. I didn't like the beginning or the end, but enjoyed the middle. A few chapters in, I found the writing style too sort of impressionistic. I scanned some reviews and was surprised how overwhelmingly positive they were. The only negative reviews I saw complained of growing attached ...

from coolmama

This first novel of four generations of a Satmar Hasidic family from the 1940s in Transylvania to Williamsburg, Brooklyn focuses on two sisters: Mila and Atara. Atara escapes to the world, but Mila continues to live a frum life with an arranged marriage. I was very interested in reading this book...

from Jenners26

I've got to start this review by saying that this type of book is not really my cup of tea. Yet I did find myself interested by this glimpse inside a world that most of the world knows little or nothing about, the most insular sect of Hasidic Jews, the Satmar. Learning about this way of life is t...

from knittingmomof3

I am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits is a richly complex look into the lives of four generations of family members within the Satmar sect, a faction of Judaism I was completely unaware of, making I am Forbidden all that more intriguing a book. Markovits deftly weaves together the lives of her charac...

from MarkMeg

I found this interesting, yet disturbing. The story begins in Transylvania in 1939 and tells the story of Zalman & Hannah, Mila and Josef and Atara. The Satmar Hassidic community and their religious teachings cause a rift between Zalman and his daughter Atara. The infertility of Mila and her tran...