{"product_id":"becoming-eve-abby-stein-9781580059169","title":"Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAbby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Abby felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. She suppressed her desire for a new body while looking for answers wherever she could find them, from forbidden religious texts to smuggled secular examinations of faith. Finally, she orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood to mainstream femininity-a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, her way of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePowerful in the truths it reveals about biology, culture, faith, and identity, \u003ci\u003eBecoming Eve\u003c\/i\u003e poses the enduring question: How far will you go to become the person you were meant to be?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abby Stein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1580059163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781580059169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seal Press (CA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/29\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2019 pg. 19","brand":"Abby Stein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44048003498239,"sku":"9781580059169","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_46676619-b5e4-401e-bcad-d26136a28458.jpg?v=1684993352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/becoming-eve-abby-stein-9781580059169","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}