Reply To: Memoir called "Unorthodox" and its effect on us

Many have questioned why didn’t she just leave Satmar and end up on the UWS, or some other more moderate frum environment? Based upon what I’ve read about her – Satmar was the only interpretation of Judaism that she knew. Don’t be so naive, anyone here knows that those raised in Satmar do not consider, MO for example, to be following Torah properly. One of her chief complaints about her youth was that she was forbidden from reading secular books. So she hid some of the classics, that are commonly read even in our Bais Yaakovs; under her bed. She lived in a community that choses to isolate itself not only from the secular world, but from other parts of frum Jewry as well. How was she to know that there were alternatives?