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Title: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Publication Year: 2009Subject: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Edition Description: UnabridgedTopic: Personal Memoirs, Literary, General
Language: EnglishAuthor: Rhonda Janzen, Rhoda Janzen
ISBN-10: 1598879073Format: Audio
ISBN-13: 9781598879070Publisher: HighBridge Co

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At 43, Rhoda Janzen's life suddenly explodes all around her. Not only has she barely survived a debilitating car crash, but her husband of 15 years has left her for a man he found on the Internet, leaving her to struggle with a mortgage she can't afford. And so she goes back to live with her parents, a deeply religious couple living in the surreally abstemious culture of the Mennonites. It's a culture that Janzen had abandoned years ago, but she finds its conservatism, practicality, and spirituality oddly comforting in her time of need. Written with a breezy, wonderfully self-deprecating voice, MENNONITE IN A BLACK DRESS is a delightful memoir, so odd and hilarious that it deserves to be a film one day. Selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the 100 Best Books of 2009.

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Author:Rhoda Janzen, Rhonda Janzen
Language:English
Publisher:HighBridge Co
Format:Audio
ISBN-10:1598879073
ISBN-13:9781598879070

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Narrated by:Hillary Huber
Edition Description:Unabridged

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Height:6.3 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:8 oz

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A 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.

A poet describes how, after her husband of fifteen 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. Simultaneous.

Industry Reviews
"[A] wonderfully intelligent and frank memoir....I loved this book and Rhoda Janzen. She is a terrific, pithy, beautiful writer, a reliable, sympathetic narrator and a fantastically good sport....MENNONITE IN A LITTLE BLACK DRESS is snort-up-your-coffee funny, breezy yet profound, and poetic without trying. In fact the whole book reads as if Janzen had dictated it to her best non-Menno friend, in her bathrobe, over tea."
(11/08/2009)

"[A] spirited, fascinating memoir about rediscovering belief....Janzen's story reminds us what a beautiful gift our past can be."
(10/25/2009)

"[A] hilarious collection of musings on Janzen's childhood, marriage and eccentric family."
(10/23/2009)

"Janzen is always ready to gently turn the humor back on herself...and women will immediately warm to the self-deprecating honesty with which she describes the efforts of friends and family to help her re-establish her emotional well-being." (starred review)
(07/13/2009)

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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home

by Rhonda Janzen

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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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  • ISBN 1598879073
  • ISBN-13 9781598879070
  • Title Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
  • Author Rhonda Janzen
  • Format Compact Disc
  • Year 2009
  • Publisher Highbridge Company
  • Dimensions5.2 in. x 1.1 in. x 6 in.

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