Why I Left the Amish A Memoir

Name: Why I Left the Amish A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780870139949

ISBN-10: 0870139940

ISBN-13: 9780870139949

Edition: 2011

Authors: Saloma Miller Furlong

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There are two ways to leave the Amish #x14; one is through life and the other through death. When Saloma Miller Furlong#x19;s father dies during her first semester at Smith College, she returns to the Amish community she had left twenty-four years earlier to attend his funeral. Her journey home prompts a flood of memories. Now a mother with grown children of her own, Furlong recalls her painful childhood in a family defined by her father#x19;s mental illness, her brother#x19;s brutality, her mother#x19;s frustration, and the austere traditions of the Amish #x14; traditions Furlong struggled to accept for years before making the difficult decision to leave the community. In this personal and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Datt's Struggle with Life


A Frolic


Do You Remember Me?


Funeral Circle


Reckoning with Joe


In the Shadows of the Buggies


A Grain by the Wayside


What Do You Mean by Love?


Wrapping a Plan


Out of the Woods


Into Daybreak


Appendices


Naming Practices among the Amish


Differences between Amish and Mennonites


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