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Hilarious and endearingShmutz is a dirty book with a pure heart The New York Times

In this witty provocative and compulsively readable comingofage story Cosmopolitan a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret addiction to porn

Like the other women in her ultraOrthodox Brooklyn community Raizl expects to find a husband through an arranged marriage Unlike the other women Raizl has a secret

With a hidden computer to help her complete her college degree she falls down the slippery slope of online pornography As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at night her daytime life begins to unravel Between combative visits with her shrink to complicated arranged dates Raizl must balance her growing understanding of her sexuality with the expectations of the family she loves

Clever subversive juicy and surprising Deesha Philyaw author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Shmutz explores what it means to be a fully realized sexual and spiritual being caught between the traditional and modern worlds