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The Get: A Spiritual Memoir of Divorce

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If you want to read an honest representation of what a divorce and a Get look and feel like, this is your book. It's a quick read and you will have to indulge the author in her attempt at prose on evey other page...let it go.

While the author isn't willing to come right out and say that her ex-husband was a thoughtless pig, I will. This man is a selfish, scheming, faithless and deceitful swine. The day she received her divorce papers, she learned that he was dating one of her closest friends. He then remarried 4 months after the Get and refused to pay for his only child's college education. He cleverly, under the guise of leading a more Orthodox life, dismantled his family for his own amusement. Shame on the Denver Orthodox Community who embraced and supported him throughout the civil dissolution and the Get. Shame on the `black hats' who sat in the room during the Get Ceremony laughing and joking with her soon to be ex. Their behavior infuriated me.

The author does come though it in the end but she is way too often at the mercy of thoughtless, egotistical and retarded men who call themselves `Orthodox', as if G-d would tolerate such behavior. It's a good thing she's in the Social Services/Psychology field and is able to see and deal with her own unhealthy behaviors in a clear way. That's how she gets through. At the end, my only hope is that her husband pays dearly for destroying his family and attempting to destroy the author, Elise. What a jerk.