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Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult
I always love a book that gets me asking existential questions. The novel explores how two very different cultures can look at the evidence and draw completely different conclusions and how our cultural influence can create a veil over our eyes that distorts facts or causes us to overlook them competely. It'll have you questioning what constitutes insanity as a defense? How far will one go to protect themselves and their way of life? How far will one go for their child? Are the Amish as saintly as they appear? Or do they, like everyone else have their secrets?
I initially became interested in Jodi's take on Amish life after reading a memoir written by a women who left the Amish community (Tears of the Silenced). The memoir unearthed a much darker side of the Amish community/ religion which is in stark contrast to the overly romanticized picture typically drawn by Christian novelists. Plain Truth falls in the middle of the spectrum, balancing romantic Amish idealism with a sobering dose of reality and the inevitably of the less than perfect human nature.
I initially became interested in Jodi's take on Amish life after reading a memoir written by a women who left the Amish community (Tears of the Silenced). The memoir unearthed a much darker side of the Amish community/ religion which is in stark contrast to the overly romanticized picture typically drawn by Christian novelists. Plain Truth falls in the middle of the spectrum, balancing romantic Amish idealism with a sobering dose of reality and the inevitably of the less than perfect human nature.