Invisible City by Julia Dahl (2014)

Rebekah Roberts is a joung journalist working as a stringer for "The Trib", a tabloid nestpaper in New York City (I vaguely remember an actual solid NYC paper The New York Herald Tribune, but it turns out it ceased publication in 1966). She is sent out to cover a woman's body found in a scrap metal place.

Very interesting look into the Hasidic Jewish community in New York, with references to the Catskills, where I have seen them in the town near my childhood camp. I do understand the need to stick together, as they have been persecuted so much throughout history, but it is really hard to read about the roles women are forced to play. What happens when someone starts questioning the strict rules of the community. Well at least here there was a safe house to go to and Rebekkah is able to get some answers by talking to the people there. 

At the same time, Rebekah is fighting her own internal demons, as her mother was a Hasidic Jew who fell in love with her father, but could not deal with the internal conflicts and abandoned them when Rebekah was very young. She has not seen or heard from her mother since. During the course of this story paths open where there is a possibility to meet her mother again.