Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
"A hilarious and moving memoir--in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron--about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis." (Book Description)
Genre
Non-Fiction
Age
Adult
Discussion Materials
Center for Mennonite Writing book review http://www.mennonitewriting.org/journal/1/5/book-review/
N.Y. Times book review http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/books/review/Christensen-t.html
Interview with the Author http://www.smithmag.net/memoirville/2010/04/22/interview-rhoda-janzen-author-of-mennonite-in-a-little-black-dress/
The author on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbRGYcLvt9g&feature=youtube_gdata
This news of being named an [ALA] Alex Award winner is especially sweet because I, personally, know what it means to be included into a world of free access to books, which has been my real family since the first day of the first grade, when I stepped into the bookmobile.
-Lynda Barry, Author