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Mennonite In A Little Black Dress
Rhoda Janzen
A Memoir Of Going Home
Henry Holt
October 2009
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Featuring: Rhoda Janzen
256 pages
ISBN: 080508925X
EAN: 9780805089257
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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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