A review by cathyofcary
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen

3.0

I thought the writer went home to one of those old-order Mennonite farming villages to recover -- her parents were actually pretty modern. Nonetheless, it's a neat book. Some slow spots, a couple of jerky transitions but a great mother-daughter read. She does an intelligent, and at times funny, look at how the conservative lifestyle she fled shaped her for better and worse. Oh, for anyone who isn't (or is) into books about smart woman making dumb choices -- her husband didn't just turn out to be gay (as it says on the back of the book), he was emotionally abusive.