This nuanced exploration of a complex world-one of humor, understanding, and horror-illuminates the conflict between yesterday's traditions and today's reality. Forced to remain silent, Gittel begins to question everything she was raised to believe. But when thirteen-yearold Gittel learns that her best friend has suffered abuse at the hands of a family member, the adults in her community try to persuade Gittel, and themselves, that nothing happened. Inside the closed community of Borough Park, where most Chassidim live, the rules people live by are determined by an ancient script written thousands of years ago-and abuse has never been a part of it. Reprint.Īfter remembering the cause of her best friend's suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent. A paperback release of an acclaimed award winner follows the experiences of 13-year-old Gittel in a closed, peaceful Chassidim community where the abuse of a peer and the denials of adults force her to question everything she was raised to believe.
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