Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress (2009) by Rhoda Janzen. Raised as a Mennonite, Janzen writes with intelligence, humor and insight about what it is like to grow up in a Mennonite world, then choose to join society at large. The book begins when she is already in midlife, having been dumped by her husband (who chooses another man named Bob whom he met on Gay.com), and following that up with a serious automobile accident. She decides it is time to go back home, and that means moving back in with her Mennonite mother and father. It's a very amusing book, and readers will come away from it with a heightened knowledge of just who and what a Mennonite is. Grade: A-