All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir

All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir

<b>Named one of "forty-two books to read before you die" by the <i>Independent</i> (UK)<br />2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner <br />2016 Winner of the GLCA New Writers Award in Nonfiction<br />One of Star Magazine's "Fab 5 Can't-Miss Entertainment Picks"</b><br /><br /><b>A moving and revealing exploration of Hasidic life, and one man's struggles with faith, family, and community</b><br /><br />Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world--only that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgression--turning on the radio--is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. <br /><br />Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. In <i>All Who Go Do Not Return</i>, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world.