Leah Lax has won awards in both fiction and nonfiction and her work has been included in numerous anthologies and publications, print and online--including Dame, Lilith, and Salon. Her work for stage has been reviewed in The New York Times, and Rolling Stone magazine, and has been broadcast on NPR. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston.
Redbook Magazine and Good Housekeeping Best of the Year
Houston Chronicle #1 Pick
Writers’ League of Texas Discovery Award
“A truly mesmerizing memoir.”
—Redbook
“Fascinating and insightful . . .”
—Booklist, Starred Review
“. . . breaks through to a new way of understanding the world.”
—Lambda Literary
“This is a remarkable book.”
—OutSmart Magazine
“Aching, absorbingly told, and with genuine tenderness, Uncovered
is a marvelous memoir, one in which any reader will find echoes of
our own quests for an authentic life.”
—Mark Doty, National Book Award author of Fire to Fire, Firebird,
and Deep Lane
“In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells a personal story that millions of
women can recognize. It's been said that, if one woman told the
truth, the world would split open. If others follow [Leah], it just
might.”
—Gloria Steinem
“Several memoirs detailing desperate escapes from hasidic life have
been published in the last year . . . But Leah Lax’s memoir has
managed to stand out from the crowd with some major
differences.”
—Jewish Book Council
“Absolutely stunning! With memorable, passionate detail, Leah Lax
recounts a unique search for wholeness and healing that
paradoxically plunged her into the quicksand of shame. Written in
poetic prose whose color and savor will linger long after you
finish the book, this memoir makes the flickering appeal of a life
of inflexible rules as seductively clear as it is claustrophobic—a
remarkable achievement. Dramatic, revelatory, deeply moving, and
ultimately inspiring, this is a truly one-of-a kind memoir about
the universal longing to discover, nurture, and celebrate one’s
authentic self.”
—Lev Raphael, author of My Germany: A Jewish Author Returns to the
World His Parents Escaped
“In this courageous, important book, Leah Lax reveals a voice once
doubly silenced by orthodox religion—as a woman and a lesbian—on a
deeply moving journey to selfhood. Should be required reading!”
—Sandi DuBowski, Director, Trembling Before G-d
“In Uncovered, Leah Lax remembers in rich detail how she moved from
loneliness through what promised to be a new family and a new
community, into a pure appreciation of the world—and how, instead,
it suppressed her deepest needs. Her book is a profound and
poignant story of innocence and experience, those ancient
universals, and transforming joy at the end.”
—Rosellen Brown, author of the New York Times bestseller Before and
After
“Uncovered is masterful—searingly honest and lyrically
rendered.”
—American Library Association, GLBT Reviews
“Dealing with abortion, LGBT identity, and hasidic life, this story
is too complex to fit neatly into the ‘ex-hasidic memoir craze’—but
that makes it all the richer.”
—Flavorwire
“The defining magic of this memoir is in every immediate detail . .
. I found Uncovered to be uplifting in its honesty.”
—Portland Book Review
“Lax’s gifts—uncommon intelligence, a poetic sensibility, an eye
skilled at discerning the telling detail—make her story lyrical,
ruminative, and profound; she is able to impart the events of her
life with a spiritual glow that shimmers long after the last page
has been turned.”
—Lilith magazine
“Lax is a gifted writer and her prose is captivating . . .
Uncovered is a worthwhile read.”
—The Jerusalem Post
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