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Leah Lax


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Nonfiction, Memoir, Gay and Lesbian


Leah Lax has written award-winning fiction and non fiction as well as an immigrant opera for Houston Grand Opera, reviewed with acclaim in The New York Times and broadcast on NPR. Her work has appeared in Salon, Longreads, Dame, HuffPost, and Lilith, among many others, and in anthologies by Seal Press and North Atlantic. When Leah isn't writing, you can find her playing her cello, or with her wife kayaking around the world. ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 1,622 ratings · 164 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
Uncovered: How I Left Hasid...
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“I have to remember that understanding sometimes comes in degrees, like growth. Like age.”
― Leah Lax, Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
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“Today, my faith has been replaced with questions. I love the way unanswered cosmic questions leave open all possibilities. The universe spreads out in three inscrutable, wondrous dimensions.”
― Leah Lax, Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
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“If I change, if I get honest, will you know me?”
― Leah Lax, Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
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