"A heartbreaking read as Deen fights to reconcile his identity and love for his family with his loss of faith in God. His voice is an important one in our generation." - ZEEK
The journey it chronicles is poignant, relatable-and also unlike anything most readers will ever have experienced. " All Who Go Do Not Return is an extraordinary memoir. "With this book Deen has laid to rest the idea that a Hasid from New Square could never become a great writer in English, or an articulate chronicler of his own experiences." - The New Republic is also an indictment of those who are standing by and allowing it to be." - The Washington Post One of Star Magazine's "Fab 5 Can't-Miss Entertainment Picks" Named one of "forty-three books to read before you die" by the Independent (UK)Ģ016 Winner of the GLCA New Writers Award in Nonfiction In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows.
Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. Deen's first transgression-turning on the radio-is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet.
His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world-only that it is to be shunned. Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. A moving and revealing exploration of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and one man's loss of faith
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