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Being a teenage Mennonite young lady, Amanda lives with her close-knit family in southern central Pennsylvania. Life revolves around hard work, faith, and dedication to the family. She doesn't question the day to day routine; it's the only life she's known. Her dad talks about buying a plantation out western world with a great deal of land in a single block. Not merely will the family plantation there together, however the parents desire to begin a new Mennonite community. Into a 15-year-old young lady, this move starts as an exciting excursion. In If You Leave This Farm, Amanda stocks the story of her family's relocation to Minnesota and the next challenges they face as farmers, a family, and Mennonites. She instructs how the first crop time is a huge failure, and her dad alone makes the decision to increase the new dairy products so that they can recoup the losses. This memoir chronicles the years of have difficulties as Amanda and her young brother Joseph seek to escape their father's suffocating and managing behavior. Intermingled with the have difficulties on the plantation is the effort to become an accepted person in the Minnesota Mennonite community. The change in Amanda's father's behavior and attitude during the first years in Minnesota alienates him and his family from others of the same trust. She shares a variety of emotions as she wrestles with the pity of her family's standing up with the Mennonites and the crushing weight of continuous submission to her father's misguided use of his God-given expert.
