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Why I Left The Amish (2011)

by Saloma Miller Furlong(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0870139940 (ISBN13: 9780870139949)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Michigan State University Press

review 1: This dragged a little at times but overall was a very compelling memoir of a woman who grew up in a dysfunctional Amish family and finally broke free and left on her own. Saloma's father was abusive, her mother was an enabler of that abuse, and her brother committed incest against both her and her sisters, getting her younger sister pregnant with an incestuous baby. The community knew of these atrocities but did nothing. The Amish were painted a very bad light in this book. There is emphasis on how they were forced to conform, how they were told that individual thinking was a sin, how women had no power and were subservient to men, and how they had no choice in following the community's rules and would be shunned if they left or fought back or spoke their minds. It sounded... more like hell on earth, and I will never look at the Amish the same way again. Something surprised me – the fact that there was a lot of premarital sex and the Amish community and that out of wedlock pregnancy was common. I really related to the author and her anguish and was very happy to read that she was very happy in her life with her husband and son many years later after she left the Amish and started setting up a good life for herself. A very enlightening book
review 2: i was excited when i saw this was the book for the july meeting of my library's book club, which i was finally going to join. i'm curious about the amish and thought i would enjoy this book.wrong.i couldn't deal with the writing. i got about a third of the way through it and it seemed like it was just telling the same things over and over again and i thought to myself, "self - you have a limited time in which to read an unlimited number of books. use it wisely." then i stopped reading this. (i also did not go to the book club, which apparently i should have because it would have been just as much conversation fodder to talk about why i did not choose to finish it. i went the next month and apparently more things happened later in the book, but she didn't hook me in the beginning so i wasn't willing to give it the time it took to get there.) less

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