Lucinda Streiker-Schmidt

I found this book recommended on a blog I read. It's fiction but based on the author's childhood and background. The story was too rushed. Little things were dwelt on while big things, like leaving the Amish and changing her lifestyle completely, were brushed over lightly. I got impatient with this woman who insisted on staying with a husband who got his own sister pregnant (or at least confessed that he did, although the introduction suggested something else) and essentially raped her own sister. Then, he beat her. Even after leaving the Amish, she stuck with him. I agree that this book does give another side to the Amish, one that the other books don't give, but it wasn't done very well, in my opinion, true or not.… (mehr)