This book just didn't work for me. The first half was excrutiatingly slow, told in an alternating timeline of the narrator at 9 years old and at 17 years old. There was such an information dump about Hasidic history and culture in the first part of the book that it felt disjointed and unfocused an...
This was a good, if painful book, that brought out a myriad of emotions; Frustration, anxiety, sadness, as it explored themes of abuse, guilt, anger and fear in a strict religious environment.It was a bit difficult in the beginning as their are alot of Jewish terms, but it is definitely worth stick...
It took me about 3 times longer to read this book than it should have taken, not because of the book just because I have not had more than 20 minutes to read in any given day for the past week. I feel a little like I did when I gave a not-so-glowing review to The Secret Holocaust Diaries that is th...
1.99 9/2/12 has anyone read this yet
I was going to go to bed and write a review in the morning but I can't sleep because this book has affected me so much. I'm really quite disturbed and upset by this so if you're looking for something light and easy: stay away from Hush.The first piece of advice I would give someone who's going to re...
This is really an important book about an important subject that just didn't work for me. Sexual abuse in insular communities is an important issue. (And not, I'll point out, limited to the Chassidic community covered in Hush. As I read, I was reminded over and over again of an article I'd read abou...
This is a great big old mess, but I'm going to go ahead and post it anyway.It's going to take me a while to sort through all my thoughts about this one. first thing: wow, great job with writing about children who are childish, and easily distracted by shiny things; and also writing about teen ager...
An emotionally powerful, riveting story about sexual abuse within Brooklyn's Chassidic Jewish community.
Hush is unlike anything I have ever read. I hadn't heard much about it before reading it so I didn't really know what I was getting into. It was such an honest and real book. Gittel has never known anything other than her life and her community. She has never had any reason to doubt that what she...
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