num_pages: 241
description: A hilarious and moving memoirin the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephronabout 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 wasnt 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. (Rhodas good-natured mother suggested she date her first cousinhe 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 personalityand 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.
language: English
title: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.