Mennonite in a Little Black Dress - A Memoir of Going Home

Sometimes you have to go back in order to move forward: the number one US bestseller now available in the UK.

About the author

Rhoda Janzen holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was the University of California Poet Laureate in 1994 and 1997. She is the author of Babel's Stair, a collection of poems, and her poems have also appeared in Poetry, The Yale Review, The Gettysburg Review, and The Southern Review. She teaches English and creative writing at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

Summary

Sometimes you have to go back in order to move forward: the number one US bestseller now available in the UK.

Foreword

Sometimes you have to go back in order to move forward: the number one US bestseller now available in the UK.

'This book is not just beautiful and intelligent, but also painfully - even wincingly - funny. It is rare that I literally laugh out loud while I'm reading, but Rhoda Janzen's voice - singular, deadpan, sharp-witted and honest - slayed me, with audible results. I have a list already of about fourteen friends who need to read this book. I will insist that they read it. Because simply put, this is the most delightful memoir I've read in ages.' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

'Wonderfully intelligent and frank... I loved this book, and Rhoda Janzen. She is a terrific, pithy, beautiful writer, a reliable, sympathetic narrator and a fantastically good sport.' New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Rhoda Janzen, Rhoda (Author) Janzen, Janzen Rhoda
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.2013
• EAN: 9781782391586
• ISBN: 978-1-78239-158-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 257 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; HUMOR / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, HUMOR / Topic / Marriage & Family, HUMOR / Topic / Religion, Humour, Family & relationships, Religion and beliefs, Biography: religious and spiritual, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Gender studies: women and girls