The World Outside

By: Eva Wiseman

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Synopsis: 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?

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780887769825
Related ISBNs:: 9780887769818
Publisher:: Tundra Books, Incorporated/Livres Toundra, Incorporated
Date of Addition:: 04/08/14
Copyrighted By:: Eva Wiseman
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Children's Books, Romance, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.