Mennonite in a little black dress A memoir of going home
Large print - 2010
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.
- Subjects
- Published
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Thorndike, Me. :
Center Point Pub
2010.
- Edition
- Center Point large print ed
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 315 p. (large print) ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781602857346
1602857342 - Main Author
A hilarious and moving memoir about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis. When her husband left her for another man, and that same week a car accident left her with serious injuries, Janzen returned to her Memmonite community, which welcomed her with open arms and generous advice.
Review by Publisher Summary 2A poet describes how, after her husband 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 family and came to terms with her failed marriage and her choices in life.
Review by Publisher Summary 3A poet describes how, after her husband of 15 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 family and came to terms with her failed marriage and the choices that both freed and entrapped her. (Biography & autobiography).
Review by Publisher Summary 4Shortly after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her husband of fifteen years left her for Bob, a guy he met on Gay.com, and a car accident left her with serious injuries. What was a gal to do?Rhoda packed her bags and went home to her Mennonite family, who welcomed her back with open arms and offbeat advice. 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.