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Young Adult Fiction Jewish

The World Outside

by (author) Eva Wiseman

Publisher
Tundra
Initial publish date
Apr 2014
Category
Jewish, General, New Experience
Recommended Age
12 to 18
Recommended Grade
7 to 12
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780887769818
    Publish Date
    Apr 2014
    List Price
    $21.99

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Description

An informative and powerful novel, The World Outside explores the life of a teenage girl in a fundamentalist Hasidic community who dreams of a different future.
Seventeen-year-old Chanie Altman lives the protected life of a Lubavitcher Hasidic girl in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, in 1991. Religion is the most important aspect of her life, and, like other Lubavitcher girls, she is expected to attend a seminary and to marry as soon as she graduates from high school. But Chanie has a beautiful voice and dreams of becoming an opera singer - a profession forbidden to a Hasidic girl. When she meets David, a non-Hasidic Jewish boy, he opens the portals to the world outside her fundamentalist community. The Crown Heights riots break out, and the Lubavitchers are put under siege by their African-American neighbors. A tragedy occurs. Will Chanie stay in the fundamentalist community she has always known in a life that has been prescribed for her, or will she leave it behind to follow her dreams?

About the author

Eva Wiseman is a Fitzhenry and Whiteside author.

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