My People, the Amish (by Joe Keim)

On a recent flight I finished reading a Kindle fiction book about an Amish-like community. Scrolling through my unread books, I spotted ‘My people, the Amish’, by Joe Keim. It was evidently a fairly short non-fiction book, and I thought it could be interesting to read more about the lifestyle and culture of the Amish.

The book opens rather dramatically with Joe and his wife evidently planning an escape. We don’t learn exactly what this involves, or why they are leaving the Amish until rather...