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Orthodoxies can exist in all walks of life; religious, professional, political, gay and straight. Many readers of my Tablet essay, Becoming a Man, have shared their difficult, personal situations with me. While I am unable to answer every note I receive, here are a list of books in the ex-fundamentalist genre that might help. 

Devout‍ ‍by Anna Gazmarian

Kissing Girls on Shabbat by Sara Glass

All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt

Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home  by Leah Lax

Boy Erased by Garret Connely

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine‍ ‍by Sue Monk Kidd

All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir‍ ‍by Shulem Deen

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots‍ ‍by Deborah Feldman

Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood‍ ‍by Leah Vincent

Educated by Tara Westover

Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels‍ ‍by Hella Winston