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S2E2 : Leah Lax | I Want To Be Dangerous — Repost!

April 30, 2021

Leah Lax is: A word person. A people person. One of those creative sorts who has to try to walk around as an ostensibly rational person. (The pandemic has eased that problem.) A secret cellist. And a collaborator, perhaps because she thinks in terms of music she isn’t very good at making herself. Leah is also a refugee from extreme religion, who has seven grown kids. Leah’s memoir Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home is the only gay memoir ever to come out of the Hasidic world. It was on many “best of” lists, Susan Sarandon read it on NPR, and it is soon to be an opera by Grammy-nominated Lori Laitman.
Leah’s next book is Not From Here, about how she rediscovered America through stories told her by immigrants and refugees, and why that matters. Leah has written four major projects based on interviews with interesting people: a touring photo exhibit, a large scale opera (Houston Grand Opera), a spoken word performance piece (the Houston Symphony), and her book Not From Here.

Twitter: @LeahLax
Facebook: LeahLaxAuthor
Leah's Website: LeahLaxAuthor.com