For those interested, an entire genre of storytelling about leaving insular religious communities exists. Only a few years ago, Tara Westover’s knockout bestseller, Educated, told of her escape from her fundamentalist Mormon family in rural Idaho.

In the Jewish world, a spate of stories about leaving various threads of the Orthodox religious world caught fire first with Deborah Feldman’s memoir in 2012, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, which later became a Netflix miniseries. In 2017, Tova Mirvis published The Book of Separation in which she wrote about abandoning her marriage and her Modern Orthodox faith.

Julia Haart’s new memoir, Brazen, is the latest. Her rejection of her Haredi enclave and her meteoric rise to the elite world of fashion was partly captured in the Netflix reality TV show, “My Unorthodox Life.