LecClier K. (SierraK) - , reviewed on 4/19/2018 + 194 more book reviews

I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about the Amish way of life. I've lived in the West my whole life, pretty far removed from the major Amish homelands. So I really learned a lot about the Amish culture from this book.

Our main character, Tyler, is unique within his community, because he had an Amish mother and an "Englisch" (non-Amish) father. When his mother dies suddenly when Tyler is six, his father , who is in the military, sends young Tyler to live with his maternal grandparents in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Fast forward seventeen years to the time of the story, and we find Tyler trying to decide if he wants to be baptized into the Amish faith. Tyler has visited his father, who has now retired from the military and moved to Orange County, regularly during his childhood, so he has had much more contact with the outside world than most of his Amish peers. This was a really well-done story of Tyler trying to decide which world he wanted to be part of, the Amish one or his father's contemporary American lifestyle.

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