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Disowned: A Spiritual Coming of Age Story
DISOWNED is coming of age, love story about Rivkah, a teenage girl who is raised in a tight, closed community that demands she conform to their ways. Strong, rebellious and full of spirit, Rivkah has to find her own path. She runs away and falls in love with a young man from another world.
Horrified, her parents disown her and mourn her as dead. Rivkah finds herself cut off not only from the world she was raised in, but from all that used to be meaningful to her.
Rivkah is willing to give up everything for the man she loves. She marries, and we watch her journey as she lives with her husband and meets his friends, who find her strange. We watch her explores different paths and teachings in order to help her find her true way, and where she really belongs.
Then, suddenly, a great change takes place: Rivkah discovers she is bearing a child. Echoes from the past overcome her. She wants the child to know where they came from, and must return to her past and the people in it, the family that disowned her. In the process, Rivkah discovers who she really is and what it means to love and forgive.
Horrified, her parents disown her and mourn her as dead. Rivkah finds herself cut off not only from the world she was raised in, but from all that used to be meaningful to her.
Rivkah is willing to give up everything for the man she loves. She marries, and we watch her journey as she lives with her husband and meets his friends, who find her strange. We watch her explores different paths and teachings in order to help her find her true way, and where she really belongs.
Then, suddenly, a great change takes place: Rivkah discovers she is bearing a child. Echoes from the past overcome her. She wants the child to know where they came from, and must return to her past and the people in it, the family that disowned her. In the process, Rivkah discovers who she really is and what it means to love and forgive.
219 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 6, 2011
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May 27, 2014
I stumbled on this self-published book when searching on Barnes and Noble for spiritual coming of age fiction. I would say my review is between a four and a five. I think this book is more suitable to adults, although the protagonist is a teenager.
The author creates is vivid image of life inside the ultra-orthadox Jewish community in New York. Her father wants to break away from the extreme conformity and limitation of the community, and her mother is depressed and wishy-washy and can't imagine leaving. There are is lots of juicy conflict in the vernacular and style of that community. We see the forces that eventually shaped this intense young woman into a true believer.
She has to leave, and go out into the world. What then? A total page turner.
I agree with the other reviewer that the ending is not 100% satisfying, but it would be a spoiler to discuss it.
The author creates is vivid image of life inside the ultra-orthadox Jewish community in New York. Her father wants to break away from the extreme conformity and limitation of the community, and her mother is depressed and wishy-washy and can't imagine leaving. There are is lots of juicy conflict in the vernacular and style of that community. We see the forces that eventually shaped this intense young woman into a true believer.
She has to leave, and go out into the world. What then? A total page turner.
I agree with the other reviewer that the ending is not 100% satisfying, but it would be a spoiler to discuss it.
March 30, 2013
Maybe closer to a 4. I couldn't put it down, but more because I wanted to know if she ever realized who she really was. How was she going to live the way her "people" want her to your the way that made her happy.
August 12, 2012
Train wreak that I couldn't put down.
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