February 15, 2012

I’ve been comparing it to friends’ coming out stories. When you’re in a world and your parents are one way and you’re told, ‘This is how the whole world is, and this is how you’re supposed to be’ and you’re terribly unhappy in that world, it’s a very scary thing. The whole time I was so religious and so sincere and so interested in the texts, but thinking this is not the world for me. And it grew and it grew.

On today’s Fresh Air, Nathan Englander talks about what it was like to go from his orthodox upbringing to a more secular place as an adult. (via nprfreshair)

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