Sisters Atara & Mila were born at the onset of the Second World War into a deeply insular ultra-orthodox Jewish sect. As the girls grow up Mila finds she is content to live within the constraints & familiarity of the world shes always known but Atara is consumed by questions
- about arranged marriage the education of girls the circumstances surrounding the escape of the sects leader during the war. Finally forced apart by the rules of the community the two women are brought together again when a family secret threatens to make pariahs of them all. I Am Forbidden is a powerful portrayal of sisters family faith & history which sweeps the reader from pre-war Transylvania to present-day New York via Paris & Engl&. Immersive beautiful moving it exposes in devastating detail what happens when unwavering love unyielding law & centuries of tradition collide.