![]() ![]() 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. (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. ![]() While Rhoda had long ventured out on her own spiritual path, the conservative community welcomed her back with open arms and offbeat advice. What was a gal to do? Rhoda packed her bags and went home. 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. 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. ![]()
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