rr6527
I also read the whole book last night. And because I am so familiar with the community she describes, it was really hard for me to read it.
It’s bad enough that the non-jews who read this will buy into her lies and give her the pity that she so manipulatively elicits from her reader. She carefully alternates between “poor helpless girl” and “I’m an iron woman” throughout her book, and to the uninformed reader she’s a heroine who deserves all the pity and respect you can spare.
But I would expect that the frum people who read the book to be able to see the deception and the distortion in it.