Obviously, there is some point at which a memoir becomes fiction - see James Frey - but all this review does is point to a thousand little quibbles about the details she chose to focus on and how they differed in different media, without anywhere suggesting that her story is false or is of no value. Bottom line, I was impressed with her writing but overall I wondered what her real story was (if she even has a publishable story) instead of the sensationalized version of it. having an affair with a Brooklyn College professor (not sure if any professor at Brooklyn College would risk his job/reputation to have an affair with a student) etc.) but I wont go into it now.
There were other things that baffled me about her story (I.e.
Is she ignorant about this fact or is she outright just outright lying about it? Did she not notice the religious girls at Brooklyn College when she was a student there? Does she not know that there are Ultra-Orthodox professors who have advanced degrees and teach at Brooklyn College? She tries to say that some gender separated programs started after she left the community but she didnt leave that long ago and touro/stern has been around for a long time now so not sure why she omits/ignores that. Some of the things that I questioned was- how did she get into Brooklyn College when her so called Yeshivishe school does not approve of it? If she got a presidential scholarship from the college then they would have needed to see her transcripts to ensure that she had the grades for it so did they (Bais Yaakov of Manchester) somehow agree to send her transcripts to Brooklyn College? And if not, then how did she get accepted to Brooklyn with a full scholarship?įurthermore, she writes in her book that yeshivishe girls come to New York to be teachers and secretaries but completely ignores the fact that Touro, Stern College, and even Brooklyn College has a ton of yeshivishe girls. There are many gaps to her story and many unanswered questions.
Unfortunately, she tries really hard to present her family/father/community as being an insular Chasidic community so it doesnt really work or add up.
She is a good writer and has a very vivid imagination. Sun, Jan 26 2014, 4:23 am I read her book.
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