Exodus

At just twenty-three years old, Deborah Feldman took her son and his few possessions, and left behind the Satmar Hasidic community of Williamsburg, New York in which she had grown up, determined to forge a better life away from the oppression and isolation of her life. ultra-orthodox Jewish education. From that experience she wrote Unorthodox, her first memoir, which was acclaimed by critics and readers, and adapted into a hit television series. Once out of that bubble, she finds Deborah alone in a hostile world in which she struggles to build a future for her son. The uprooting, spiritual emptiness and the need to carve out an identity for her throw her in search of her roots, first in the United States and then in Europe, ready to find out how her grandmother lived during the Holocaust. Exodus is a deeply moving inquiry into memory and how our origins can restore us to a sense of belonging and help us discover who we are.