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You can find two ways to leave the Amish - you are through life and the other through death. When Saloma Miller Furlong's father dies during her first semester at Smith School, she comes back to the Amish community she had left twenty four years earlier to wait his funeral. Her trip home prompts a flood of memory. Now a mother with grown children of her own, Furlong recalls her unpleasant childhood in a family group described by her father's mental health issues, her brother's brutality, her mother's annoyance, and the austere traditions of the Amish - traditions Furlong struggled to simply accept for years prior to making the difficult decision to leave the community. In this personal and moving memoir, Furlong traces the genesis of her desire to have liberty and education and chronicles her conflicted search for independence. Eloquently told, Why I Kept the Amish is a revealing portrait of life within - and without - this frequently misinterpreted community. The publication is shared by Michigan Express University Press.
