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HarperCollins
September 2011
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Featuring: Irma Voth
272 pages ISBN: 0062070185 EAN: 9780062070180 Kindle: B004S32RKQ Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction | Contemporary
That rare coming-of-age story able to blend the dark with
the uplifting, Irma Voth follows a young Mennonite
woman, vulnerable yet wise beyond her years, who carries a
terrible family secret with her on a remarkable journey to
survival and redemption. Nineteen-year-old Irma lives
in a rural Mennonite community in Mexico. She has already
been cast out of her family for marrying a young Mexican
ne’er-do-well she barely knows, although she remains close
to her rebellious younger sister and yearns for the lost
intimacy with her mother. With a husband who proves elusive
and often absent, a punishing father, and a faith in God
damaged beyond repair, Irma appears trapped in an untenable
and desperate situation. When a celebrated Mexican filmmaker
and his crew arrive from Mexico City to make a movie about
the insular community in which she was raised, Irma is
immediately drawn to the outsiders and is soon hired as a
translator on the set. But her father, intractable and
domineering, is determined to destroy the film and get rid
of the interlopers. His action sets Irma on an irrevocable
path toward something that feels like freedom. A
novel of great humanity, written with dry wit, edgy humor,
and emotional poignancy, Irma Voth is the powerful
story of a young woman’s quest to discover all that she may
become in the unexpectedly rich and confounding world that
lies beyond the stifling, observant community she knows.
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