Title: The book of separation
Description: The author describes how she left both Orthodox Judaism and her marriage and followed her inner compass to forge a new life for herself and her children while seeking her own path to happiness.

Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals: to observe was to be accepted and to be accepted was to be loved. She married a man from within the fold and quickly began a family. Her doubts became noisier than her faith, and it became a suffocating existence. Leaving her husband and her faith, Mirvis set out to discover what she does believe and who she really is.
Subjects: American Authors, Biography, Orthodox judaism, Jewish women, Jews, biography, Women, united states, biography, New York Times reviewed, Jewish women authors
People: Tova Mirvis
Time periods: 20th century