I kept seeing this cover in various bookstores and it caught my eye --then I found out that many authors I like were recommending it for their summer reading list. So, I put it on my wish list and found it today at Half Price Books. Yay!

I tried reading this book a few months ago -- I got about a third of the way through it and it just didn't hold my interest. I've kept it on my shelf since then, thinking I'd pick it up and try again -- but that just hasn't happened yet.

I'm sending another book to dabercro as a RABCK, and I notice she has this book on her wishlist, too. Sending this along as a bonus RABCK :)

Book is on its way to dabercro as a bonus RABCK :) Enjoy!

Was waiting for me at the post office when I returned from out of town. Thanks for the surprise RABCK!!

Rhoda is a middle-aged women whose husband of fifteen years leaves her for a man he met on Gay.com. That same week she is in a car accident that leaves her injured. She travels across the country to her Mennonite family home to rest and pick up the pieces of her life.

Definitely not what I expected. There were a few humorous parts that did make me laugh out loud. I guess I was one of those people who confused Mennonites and their way of living with the Amish.

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Prior to reading this book, I thought the Mennonites had a lot more in common with the Amish. Thank you Rhoda for clearing that up. Overall this was an entertaining read as Rhoda Janzen has a way of sharing her experiences which make the most mundane circumstances somewhat entertaining.

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Rhoda Janzen was raised in a religious Mennonite family. As an adult she leaves religious life and marries a man she loves but who is unable to love her as much as she loves him. Or that was my interpretation of it. She goes back home to her parents after the final break up. Oh, wait, did I actually read this book or snooze through portions? She went home after a terrible car accident. She talks more about her husband and their break up than she does the car accident. And their relationship was destructive to both of them. I guess my mind was on their relationship and the car accident was a passing, oh, that is difficult, sorry you had to go through that, incident (for me, not Rhoda). I found their relationship fascinating, in fact the strength of the writing is in the relationships, and in her descriptions. Her writing has a punch.
I didn't laugh much, but I did think it was moving. Her love for her parents comes through very strongly, her family memories are often somewhat amusing. She also outlines Mennonite history. I had always assumed Mennonite was a branch of Amish, not realizing that the Mennonites came first and that Amish broke away and formed their own group when Mennonite weren't strict enough. I enjoyed reading it, it was both interesting and amusing.

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