Writers' League of Texas Discover Award
Finalist: Pirate's Alley/PEN Faulkner, May Sarton Award, Chautauqua Prize
a Redbook Magazine and Good Housekeeping Best Book of 2015
2016 Wordwrite Award for memoir
Uncovered is the first memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the Hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her liberal, secular home to become a Hasidic Jew, then plumbs the nuances of her arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and Hasidic motherhood, as her creative, sexual, and spiritual longings shimmer beneath the surface.
