A review by sbaunsgard
Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story by Rebecca Dana

3.0

A memoir of an atheist woman who loves Sex and the City who moves to Crown Heights to live with an Orthodox rabbi who's doubting that he wants to be Jewish while she gets over a breakup. Less funny than I thought, but not in a bad way. It's a melancholy book. Every once in a while there's a really beautifully written paragraph that makes it completely worth reading. There's some of that same relatable/unrelatable quality that Joan Didion has in The Year of Magical Thinking. Emotionally I can lock into the descriptions, but essentially, the lifestyle is very NOT ME. I prefer Didion, but this was a pretty decent read, once I got into the meat of it. Also, it took about 75 pages to get to the compelling part of the book (where Eeyore appears.)