Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home (Paperback)

from shannonkearns

I really enjoyed this book. It tells the story of a woman in her 40's who's husband leaves her for a guy he met on Gay.com. She is then in an accident and has to move home to her parents' house to recover. What follows is both the story of her recovery but also a story of homecoming as she finds ...

from ChrisWeir

Memoir of a scholarly woman who has left her Mennonite background to pursue a life of educational/literary work. The first few chapters are some major surgeries that she has to have done, a hysterectomy and then after a bad car accident. We also learn that her husband left her for another man bet...

from auntmarge64

This memoir is half humorous and half philosophical, and the combination made me crazy. Some of the humor is laugh-out-loud funny, some a rather hokey and grotesque reminiscence of food "shame" and other embarrassments of being a traditional Mennonite child in a mainstream school. The relationshi...

from LCBrooks

Jantzen starts out on a high note: witty and engaging. A little over half-way through, the book becomes disjointed,ending with the lesson on Mennonite history.

from ImBookingIt

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress was a fun read.I found it an interesting story. Rhoda had an eventful life, and I enjoyed hearing about it. I loved her relationship with her sister and with her mother. Her mother was an interesting balance of open mindedness and of what we expect a Mennonite to...