num_pages: 310
description: 2015 National Jewish Book Award WinnerA moving and revealing exploration of Hasidic life and one man's struggles with faith family and communityShulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US he knows little about the outside worldonly that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgressionturning on the radiois small but his curiosity leads him to the library and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs until several years later his faith unravels entirely. Now a heretic he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. His relationship with his family at stake he is forced into a life of deception and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. In All Who Go Do Not Return Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world.
language: English
title: All Who Go Do Not Return
publisher: Graywolf Press