Mennonite in a little black dress
Subtitle: a memoir of going home
By: Rhoda Janzen
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780857890405; 9780857890313
Subjects: American Poets; Biography
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.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 2009.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Bridegroom Cousin; title: 2. Touch My Tooth; title: 3. Fear of Mosquitoes; title: 4. Wounding Words; title: 5. A Lingering Finish; title: 6. What the Soldier Made; title: 7. The Big Job; title: 8. Rippling Water; title: 9. Wild Thing; title: 10. The Trump Shall Sound; title: 11. And That's Okay!; title: 12. The Raisin Bombshell; title: 13. The Therapeutic Value of Lavender; title: Appendix. A Mennonite History Primer.