The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir

This is Rossi's wild, queer coming-of-age story. Rossi was taught only to aspire to marry a nice Jewish boy and to be a good kosher Jewish girl. At sixteen she flowers into a rebellious punk-rock rule-breaker who runs away to seek adventure. Her freedom is cut short when her parents kidnap her and dump her with a Chasidic rabbi-a "cult buster" known for "reforming" wayward Jewish girls-in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Rossi spends the next couple of years in a repressive, misogynistic culture st...