The Hole In The Sheet: Myths Everyone Believes and Nobody Asks Me About (Behind The Closed Door The Sarah Mushka Series)

You think there is a hole in the sheet. I have eleven children. Let me tell you what is really going on.Outsiders have been making up stories about Chassidic women for two hundred years. I am one. I have heard every one of those stories. Most of them are wrong.This is Book Two in the Behind The Closed Door series. Book One was about what happens inside my marriage. This book is about what the outside world thinks happens inside my marriage — and the gap between the two.Forty-one myths I am tired of hearing. One by one. I correct the record.The hole in the sheet (no)"You met on JDate" (no, the matchmaker, and she knew something the apps do not)"Your husband controls you" (let me stop laughing first)"You are uneducated" (I speak three languages)"You hate your body" (you are the one in the mirror all day, not me)"You reject the modern world" (I am writing this on a phone)And thirty-five more I am done hearingI am defensive. I am not apologetic. Sometimes I am funny. Sometimes I am sharp. I am never going to pretend the outside world's pity is interesting to me.About this book: I am a real Satmar woman in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I write under the name Sarah Mushka to protect my family. AI was used to help me organize my Yiddish-accented English into book form. Every story, every correction, every opinion is mine.The mikveh is in the next book. It deserves its own book. I promise.Now you will know us. Sort of.Behind The Closed Door, Book Two. Book One, The Secret to Real Intimacy, is also available. Read more