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Why I Left the Amish : A Memoir

ISBN: 9780870139949 | 0870139940
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
There are two ways to leave the Amish #x14; one is through life and the other through death. When Saloma Miller Furlong#x19;s father dies during her first semester at Smith College, she returns to the Amish community she had left twenty-four years earlier to attend his funeral. Her journey home prompts a flood of memories. Now a mother with grown children of her own, Furlong recalls her painful childhood in a family defined by her father#x19;s mental illness, her brother#x19;s brutality, her mother#x19;s frustration, and the austere traditions ... MORE
Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Datt's Struggle with Lifep. 1
A Frolicp. 23
Do You Remember Me?p. 41
Funeral Circlep. 61
Reckoning with Joep. 77
In the Shadows of the Buggiesp. 95
A Grain by the Waysidep. 115
What Do You Mean by Love?p. 135
Wrapping a Planp. 145
Out of the Woods... MORE
Into Daybreakp. 169
Appendices
Naming Practices among the Amishp. 183
Differences between Amish and Mennonitesp. 185
Terms for ôOutsidersöp. 189
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Saloma Miller Furlong was born and raised in an Amish community in Ohio, which she left in her quest for freedom and a formal education. She graduated from Smith College in 2007 and currently works in the German Department and European Studies Program at Amherst College.


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