THE GET: A Spiritual Memoir of Divorce
Elise Edelson Katch, . . HCI/Simcha, $10.95 (275pp) ISBN 978-1-55874-929-0
This sentimental memoir of a journey through divorce focuses on the get, the Jewish divorce decree and ceremony. Katch, a Denver social worker, describes the "surgical finality" of its power as one of both hurt and healing. Frightened by her sense of loss and loneliness in the wake of separation from her husband, Katch balks at proceeding with the get until she can no longer stall. Her procrastination stems partly from her feeling that divorce is a "wound in the universe" and partly from the divergent spiritual path her husband takes, immersing himself in an ultra-Orthodox world far from the
Reviewed on: 07/02/2001
Genre: Nonfiction