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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home (2009)

por Rhoda Janzen

Series: Rhoda Janzen memoir (book 1)

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A hilarious and moving memoir--in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron--about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis.
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In all honesty, I only actually listened to 6/7 parts of this audiobook. A download problem kept me from listening to the last bit. The fact that that didn't really bother me was pretty telling. This book was not my thing. The beginning chapters describe some pretty serious issues that the author had to deal with, but this was not an examination of how she coped in any way. There wasn't much in there to educate people about the Mennonite community. The author tried really hard to share the humor in her situation. It didn't work for me. ( )
  CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 |
Entertaining. Cute, but not earth shattering. ( )
  ShanLand | Feb 28, 2022 |
Adult nonfiction; humor/memoir. Rhoda writes super funny commentary about her life as she undergoes a hysterectomy followed by a divorce to her bipolar husband (who leaves her for a man named Bob from Gay.com). ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
This is proof that I do not prefer memoirs. It is a book of memories that does not become a story with an ending. There are episodes of her childhood life and habits of her mother that are humorous. What a life she had with a husband who was bipolar even while dating. I still had a hard time with why the author felt this religious life was fine for even her sister yet not for her. It was like she was justifying it to the public but saying it is OK for some people but not all. ( )
  kshydog | Dec 13, 2020 |
I wanted to like this more, especially since it was written by a friend of a friend but it just didn't do much for me. Parts of it were funny but overall her story seemed to ramble on a little too much. ( )
  baruthcook | Aug 26, 2020 |
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“Mennonite in a Little Black Dress” is loose and gossipy, organic and unhurried without losing control. It has “a real nice shape,” to use a compliment one matchmaker applies to Janzen herself... I loved this book, and Rhoda Janzen. She is a terrific, pithy, beautiful writer, a reliable, sympathetic narrator and a fantastically good sport.
 

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The year I turned forty-three was the year I realized I should have never taken my Mennonite genes for granted.
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"When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community" (p 137)
Wrapped in his own misery and despair, he was incapable of the simple practiced presence that love demands. (p 171)
I'd never minded the little things in Nick's behavior; I'd never even noticed them. It was after Nick had left me that I learned the lesson: it's when you don't love somebody that you do notice the little things. Then you mind them. You mind them terribly. (p 181)
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