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A review by gglazer
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
3.0
These three stars would have been four if I'd be able to understand the order of this book... Janzen was telling you all sorts of nonsense at the beginning, before you actually knew her story (her husband leaves her for a man; she's in a hideous car accident; she goes home to live with her Mennonite parents for a while; she gets way too many bad things all at once).
I liked her more and more as the book went on and she became more and more honest about her husband's mental illness and her own intellectual pursuits, and it became a really meaty memoir -- if only she'd waited to tell the stories about how her brothers acted on camping trips and why her mom makes so much homemade jam until AFTER I cared about her, I'd have really really liked this book.
I liked her more and more as the book went on and she became more and more honest about her husband's mental illness and her own intellectual pursuits, and it became a really meaty memoir -- if only she'd waited to tell the stories about how her brothers acted on camping trips and why her mom makes so much homemade jam until AFTER I cared about her, I'd have really really liked this book.