As a teen, Sara Glass — then known as Malka — she had accepted her calling as a servant of God: to become a dutiful wife and bear children while growing up in the Gur Hasidic sect of Brooklyn.
However, she had questions. Hardest of all was to understand why she so deeply and powerfully felt a love that she was taught to hate.
In Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir, which was released on June 11 by Atria/One Signal Publishers ($27.99 hardcover), Dr. Sara Glass tells her coming-of-age, awakening, and survivor story.
With honesty and courage, the author takes us inside the community and family in which she was raised, her two troubled marriages, and her struggles with shame, guilt and the dread of losing her children.