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Chronicles the author's departure from the Amish community in Kalona, Iowa, and how she escaped a lifetime of abuse and oppression to join the modern world while keeping alive her Christian faith.
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About the Author
Ruth Irene Garrett left the Amish faith and her family in 1996 and was ultimately excommunicated from the Amish church. Since that time, she has fully immersed herself in modern life. She married Ottie Garrett, joined the Lutheran Church, learned how to drive and has earned a high-school degree. She looks forward to attending college. One of her great passions is photography – something the Amish frown upon since they do not want to be photographed. Both Irene and Ottie Garrett, who live in Glasgow, Kentucky, devote their time to helping the Amish families who have left their communities.
Rick Farrant is an award-winning 28-year veteran of newspapers and magazines, who has edited for “ The Denver Post, Time, The San Bernardino County Sun., The Danville Commercial-News, The Hammond Times, and The Bozeman Daily Chronicle". He is the former public information officer for the Montana University system. Currently he is an editor at “The Journal Gazette” in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he oversaw a heralded series of stories on the Amish. The 48-year old New York native also conducts lectures and writing seminars. He lives with his wife Susie and his daughter Amber in Fort Wayne.
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Garrett lifts the veil from one of the most private, most fascinating Christian sects, the Amish. The fifth of seven children, she grew up in Kalona, Iowa, as a member of the strict Old Order Amish, who owned no motor vehicles and went without electricity and telephones. Unthinkably for an Old Order Amish young woman, she fell in love with an outsider 15 years her senior. Worse, he was divorced, and wedding him was equivalent to adultery in the eyes of the Amish. But leaving the order was her most serious offense, and for it she suffered the severe consequence of being shunned by her home community. Garrett is exceedingly honest, unafraid to criticize what she considers rigid and hypocritical in Amish behavior. Her subsequent life among "the English," as the low German-speaking Amish call outsiders, makes a wonderful tale of self-discovery, as her relationship with her husband slowly blossoms. Moving and life-affirming, the book ends on a hopeful note as her family comes to grudgingly accept her difficult, life-altering decision. June Sawyers
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