Synopsis
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.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2009-10-13 | | Narrated by: | Hillary Huber | | Edition Description: | Unabridged |
| Size | | Height: | 6.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
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
"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)
"[A] hilarious collection of musings on Janzen's childhood, marriage and eccentric family."
(10/23/2009)
"[A] spirited, fascinating memoir about rediscovering belief....Janzen's story reminds us what a beautiful gift our past can be."
(10/25/2009)
"[A] 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)
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