Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 8 months ago
Views - 3
Ships From - Arkansas
Est. Publication Date - Apr 2010
Seller Description
A hilarious and moving memoir—in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron—about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her brilliant husband of fifteen years left her for Bob, a guy he met on Gay.com, but that same week a car accident left her with serious injuries. What was a gal to do? Rhoda packed her bags and went home. This wasn’t just any home, though. This was a Mennonite home. While Rhoda had long ventured out on her own spiritual path, the conservative community welcomed her back with open arms and offbeat advice. (Rhoda’s good-natured mother suggested she date her first cousin — he owned a tractor, see.) It is in this safe place that Rhoda can come to terms with her failed marriage; her desire, as a young woman, to leave her sheltered world behind; and the choices that both freed and entrapped her. Written with wry humor and huge personality—and tackling faith, love, family, and aging—Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is an immensely moving memoir of healing, certain to touch anyone who has ever had to look homeward in order to move ahead.
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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
ISBN: 9780805092257
Publisher Description
A poet describes how, after her husband of fifteen years left her for a relationship with a man and she subsequently was seriously injured in a car crash, she returned home to her close-knit Mennonite...
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