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Mennonite in a little black dress [electronic resource] : a memoir of going home /

Janzen, Rhoda. (Author). Huber, Hillary. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781598879087 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
  • ISBN: 1598879081 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
  • Publisher: [Minneapolis, Minn.] : HighBridge Co., 2009.

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Downloadable audio file.
Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 8:15:14.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Hillary Huber.
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Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 118645 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject: Janzen, Rhoda.
Poets, American > 21st century > Biography.
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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress : A Memoir of Going Home
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress : A Memoir of Going Home
by Janzen, Rhoda
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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress : A Memoir of Going Home


A hilarious and moving memoir in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron about a woman who returns home to her Mennonite family after a personal crisis.The same week her husband of 15 years ditches her for a guy he met on Gay.com, a partially inebriated teenage driver smacks her VW Beetle head-on. Marriage over, body bruised, life upside-down, Rhoda does what any sensible 43-year-old would do: She goes home.But hers is not just any home. It's a Mennonite home, the scene of her painfully uncool childhood and the bosom of her family: handsome but grouchy Dad, plain but cheerful Mom. Drinking, smoking, and slumber parties are nixed; potlucks, prune soup, and public prayer are embraced. Having long ago left the faith behind, Rhoda is surprised when the conservative community welcomes her back with open arms-and offbeat advice. She discovers that this safe, sheltered world is the perfect place to come to terms with her failed marriage and the choices that both freed and entrapped her.

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