MENNONITE IN A LITTLE BLACK DRESS: A MEMOIR OF GOING HOME

Book ID/图书代码： 06814009B33439

English Summary/英文概要： It is rare that I literally laugh out loud while I’m reading, but Janzen’s voice—singular, deadpan, sharp-witted and honest—slayed me." —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her husband of fifteen years left her for Bob, a guy he met on Gay.com, but that same week a car accident left her injured. Needing a place to rest and pick up the pieces of her life, Rhoda packed her bags, crossed the country, and returned to her quirky Mennonite family’s home, where she was welcomed back with open arms and offbeat advice. (Rhoda’s good-natured mother suggested she get over her heartbreak by dating her first cousin—he owned a tractor, see.)

Written with wry humor and huge personality—and tackling faith, love, family, and aging—Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is an immensely moving memoir of healing, certain to touch anyone who has ever had to look homeward in order to move ahead.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 打動每位讀者的心靈的返家之旅

對於Rhoda Janzen來說，人到了四十歲應該開始享受人生，但她的生命卻在這時有了重大改變。
Rhoda Janzen和老公常在社交場合出雙入對，他們永遠衣著光鮮而且狀至親密，是一對令人生羡的好夫妻。兩人結婚十多年，在人生旅途上算是一段不算短的日子，而這十幾年是Rhoda整個人生中最重要的階段，但到了四十歲Rhoda卻發現自己沒有體驗到青春和人生的美好，原因正是結婚十多年來，才發現老公原來是同性戀，而且後來是跟一位在同性戀網路上認識的男人私奔而棄她而去。
倒楣的事不只如此，在老公離開她不到一週，Rhoda出了一場嚴重的車禍。由此刻開始，Rhoda決定改變自己的人生，於是帶著簡單的行囊她開始了返家之旅。在本書中，妳可以發現一個似乎失去所有的女性，如何在這段旅程找回自己，如何從挫折中站起，如何以幽默的文字來貼近打動每位讀者的心靈。(CL)

Awards/获奖情况：暢銷作家《享受吧！一個人的旅行》- 伊莉莎白．吉兒伯特 (Elizabeth Gilbert)
筆會/福克納獎得主 - 凱特‧克里斯坦森 (Kate Christensen )
紐約時報時尚評論家 - 凱西‧荷英 (Cathy Horyn)
勇於發言的南方作家- 帕吉特•鮑威爾 (Padgett Powell)
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National Indie Bestseller

Reviews
“Wonderfully intelligent and frank. . . . Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is snort-up-your-coffee funny, breezy yet profound, and poetic without trying. In fact, the whole book reads as if Janzen had dictated it to her best non-Menno friend, in her bathrobe, over cups of tea. . . . Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is loose and gossipy, organic and unhurried without losing control. It has a ‘real nice shape,’ to use a compliment one matchmaker applies to Janzen herself. . . . [Janzen’s] tone reminds me of Garrison Keillor’s deadpan, affectionate, slightly hyperbolic stories about urbanities and Minnesota Lutherans, and also of the many Jewish writers who’ve brought mournful humor to the topics of gefilte fish and their own mothers, as well as to the secular, often urban, often intellectual world they call home now. It’s the narrative voice of the person who grew up in an ethnic religious community, escaped it, then looked back with clearsighted objectivity and appreciation. . . . I loved this book, and Rhoda Janzen. She is a terrific, pithy, beautiful writer, a reliable, sympathetic narrator and a fantastically good sport. I hope she becomes rich and successful and falls madly in love with her first cousin Waldemar. Madam, your tractor is waiting.”---Kate Christensen, New York Times Book Review

“Hilarious and touching.”---People (four stars)

“[Janzen] has done the nearly impossible. She has made the thrifty, teetotaling, borscht-loving Mennonites seem funny and intriguing. . . . Memoirs don’t promise literal truths so much as profoundly singular voices, and Ms. Janzen has unexpectedly found hers. You can almost feel the chafe of her shame-based polyester trousers, the ones with the crease down the front ‘as if I were in early training to drive a Winnebago back and forth across America’s heartland,’ just as you could probably spot Mary Loewen Janzen, her gentle but unglamorous mother, in a crowd, her head ‘sprouting directly from her shoulders like a friendly lettuce.’ Her voice is that confident and fresh.”---Cathy Horyn, New York Times

About the Author/作者介绍： Rhoda Janzen美國現代詩人，擁有加州大學博士學位。在《耶魯文學雜誌》《蓋提斯堡評論》和美國最有影響力的文學雜志《南方評論》，均可見其詩集作品，同時Rhoda也是一位教授英文與創意寫作的教授。

Format:电子手稿

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