"Hilarious... musings on Janzen's childhood, marriage, and eccentric family... mines Mennonite culture for comic effect, but... does so with love." -- Entertainment Weekly

Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. Her brilliant husband of fifteen years left her for Bob, a guy he met on Gay.com, and the same week a car accident left her with serious injuries. What was a gal to do? Rhoda packed her bags and went home. This wasn't just any home, though. This was a Mennonite home. While Rhoda had long ventured out on her own spiritual path, the conservative community welcomed her back with open arms and offbeat advice. (Rhoda's good-natured mother suggested she date her first cousin -- he owned a tractor, see.) It is in this safe place that Rhoda can come to terms with her failed marriage; her desire, as a young woman, to leave her sheltered world behind; and the choices that both freed and entrapped her.

Tackling faith, love, family, and aging, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is an immensely moving memoir of healing.

"Funny, breezy yet profound, and poetic... [Janzen's] tone reminds me of Garrison Keillor's." -- Kate Christensen, New York Times Book Review

"Hilarious and touching." -- People

"Women will immediately warm to [Jantzen's] self-deprecating honesty." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

"[A] spirited, fascinating memoir." -- Hannah Sampson, Miami Herald

"In the tradition of David Sedaris... family... is the source of the book's biggest laughs, and its heart." -- Marisa Meltzer, The Daily Beast

"The most delightful memoir I've read in ages." -- Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times-bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love

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