For a first book to publish, this was a bold and captivating way to start.

Felicia takes us on a journey through a coming of age story of a Hasidic Jewish young women struggling with her identity and sexuality while navigating college and her very religious family.

In one sentence, I think this book is a love story to those living in overly religious communities and the journey of finding themselves within it.

In just 250 pages we follow Raizl from admitting to her therapist about her addiction to porn after being given a laptop in her scholarship to go to college and study to be an accountant. In the Hasidic community, specifically in Brooklyn, NY where this story takes place, electronics and the internet are not allowed except for education and work purposes. With this knowledge in hand, Raizl goes on this deep dive that lads her to porn, she is enamored with toeing the line between keeping kosher and tang bacon and egg sandwiches and cheeseburgers, drinking alcohol, wearing pants, and using the internet for non educational purposes. We see her struggle through these decisions and her addiction all while tying to be the religious person she is within the Jewish community. Within this narrative, readers with little to no knowledge of the Jewish community, let alone the Hasidic sect (being th most conservative regarding their laws) get to learn about the community through the lense of someone growing up within it. We see Raizl go through dates with men the matchmaker finds, and it doesn’t always go well, we see celebrations of culture and faith and see the important of family. We also see in the story itself a celebration of the Yiddish language.