| The World Outside Contributor(s): Wiseman, Eva (Author) |
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ISBN: 0887769810 ISBN-13: 9780887769818 Publisher: Tundra Books (NY) OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Religious - Jewish - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - New Experience - Young Adult Fiction | Romance - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2013936991 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.3" W x 7.7" (0.75 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Chronological Period - 1990's - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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? |