Unmatched - the Interview with Author Sarah Lavane
Shalom, friends! In my previous post I reviewed Unmatched, the memoir of Sarah Lavane who navigated the stormy seas of Jewish matchmaking for decades. If you haven't seen it yet, please check it out here . So without further ado, I'd like to welcome Sarah Lavane. She joins us here to tell us more about her memoir shedding much light on the “unmatched” who live in a “matched” community. TELEM: Your book has been out for a while now. What was the most surprising reaction to your memoir? SARAH: So many readers told me that they stayed up all night to read the book and couldn’t put it down. I had no idea my memoir would do that. It was thrilling to hear! I was also surprised by the wide spectrum of readers and how they all connected to different themes. One reader was a non-Jewish Romanian woman. English was not even her first language. She connected because she, too, is looking for a religious husband. She told me she read my book with its glossary as well as an English dictionary...