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Rhoda Janzen grew up in a conservative Mennonite family in a conservative Mennonite town--and couldn't get out of there fast enough. She got her PhD and became an academic grammarian, teaching undergraduate English and Creative Writing. She married a bi-polar artist, who also happened to be an atheist. At the age of 43 she had a radical hysterectomy and her husband took care of her in a remarkably capable and seemingly loving way. He got a good job (unusual for him) and they bought an expensive
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After a run of disastrous events that change the course of her life (surgery, husband runs off with another man, car accident), Janzen moves back to her parents home where she was raised as a devout Mennonite. While there she writes about her growing up with her father, a minister, and her mother, a nurse, and tells how she eventually left home and abandoned the religion.
Rhoda is quite funny and the book has some laugh-out-loud humor. I loved it until about ¼ from the end where she started focu ...more
Rhoda is quite funny and the book has some laugh-out-loud humor. I loved it until about ¼ from the end where she started focu ...more
