6/21/2023 0 Comments Cut Me Loose by Leah Vincent![]() ![]() Her community members won’t take her in because she is unmarried she has no friends, and her parents are not willing to help her. Vincent moves to New York, lives alone in a basement and barely scrapes by. “I had been thinking about my own happiness - specifically, my doubts that only a Yeshivish outlook could lead to a joyful life, as I had been taught.” This book can be read as a cautionary tale to those who consider leaving the comforts of their religious communities for the freedom of the outside world. Young Leah believes that the strict “Yeshivish” life keeps her afloat, and that her parents would embrace her once again if she was “good.” Bad kids ended up as drug addicts or dead. When her letters to the boy are discovered, she is cut off from her community and from the support of her family – emotional and financial - and must fend for herself. Vincent is completely open about the events that transpire after she was caught talking to a boy. Leah Vincent’s memoir, Cut Me Loose, details her descent from an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle to a self-destructive, promiscuous, and misunderstood state of being. ![]()
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