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Crossing Over

✍ Scribed by Garrett, Ruth Irene

Book ID
108139485
Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2012
Tongue
en-US
Weight
108 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780060529925

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✦ Synopsis

A work Booklist called ΰ¬―ving and life--affirming, Crossing Over is the true story of one woman's extraordinary flight from the protected world of the Amish people to the chaos of contemporary life.

Ruth Irene Garrett was the fifth of seven children raised in Kalona, Iowa, as a member of a strict Old Order Amish community. She was brought up in a world filled with rigid rules and intense secrecy, in an environment where the dress, buggies, codes of conduct, and way of life differed even from other Amish societies only 100 miles away. This Old Order community actively avoided all interaction with ೨e Englishߜ'96 everyone who lived on the outside. As a result, Ruth knew only one way of life, and one way of doing things.

This compelling narrative takes us inside a hidden community, offering a striking look as one woman comes to terms with her discontent and ultimately leaves her family, faith and the sheltered world of her...

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