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

3.0

The parts that are funny are laugh-out-loud so, and while Janzen is from the Russian Mennonite tradition (I hail from a long line of German Mennonites), I recognize so much of the food and cultural idiosyncrasies that she weaves into her narrative. But there is an undercurrent of meanness in her sarcasm that makes me uncomfortable; I may not be a Mennonite myself, but it is my background, and I don't like seeing that put down, no matter how amusingly.