Amish Girls

          Written by a girl who grew up in an Previous Order Amish group and church, Amish Girls: Lives and Tales presents a mild, lyrical inside view of Amish womanhood. How are Amish girls distinctive? How are they typical? How do they discover expression in a spot that values group togetherness above all else? This beneficiant and heartwarming memoir explores these questions to find what it means to be a girl and to be Amish.           Meet Naomi whose favourite writer is C.S. Lewis. Rebecca who’s single and has a profession. Susie who’s an artist. And Esther who has misplaced two kids and spends a lot of her time reaching out to different members of her group who’ve suffered loss. Louise Stoltzfus gathered her tales via a collection of interviews and conversations with Amish girls, a lot of whom she has recognized most of her life. Little has been written about Amish girls. How are they regarded inside their extremely structured group? How complete are they as people? This insightful, gently probing, but all the time respectful textual content opens a door to this almost hidden world. Profiles 10 Amish girls; written by a girl reared in an Amish household.