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Title: Crossing Over: One Woman's Escape from Amish Life by Ruth Irene Garrett, Rick Farrant ISBN: 0-06-052992-X Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I could never tell all
Comment: I just recieved my copy of "Crossing Over" and what a wonderful book! There's no way I could or for that matter would, tell my life history for the world to read and see.People can be so harsh and so self rightous.Ruth Irene Garrett had the guts to tell her and Ottie's story of falling in love and her leaving the Old Order Amish for a man 20 plus years older and divorced.I believe if she was willing to tell her story then it must be true because she told her story from the heart.I felt every bit of pain she felt when those awful letters from her family arrived at her new home.She has to be a very strong person.I wish her all the luck in the world. I hope Hollywood does a great job telling her story. I'm glad I read the book before the TV movie comes out, because I'm sure they'll put their little twist to it and this way I know the story about Ruth Irene Garrett.
Rating: 4
Summary: One Person's Opinion
Comment: The book "Crossing Over" by Ruth Irene Garrett and Rick Farrant, is very interesting. The co-authors keep ones attention by giving details of the life of Ruth Irene Garrett. I enjoy studying other cultures therfore I enjoyed this book, which explains the customs of the Amish people. There is drama, facts, and a love story all in this book, which makes it more appealing than just reading a factual account of the Amish traditions and history.
Ruth Irene Garrett grew up in the strict traditions of the Old Order Amish. She tells about the struggles that she had trying to be an independent woman in a male-dominated household. She educated herself beyond the realms of her isolated existence, which drove a wedge between her and her family. This is definitely a "must read" book.
Rating: 2
Summary: CROSSING OVER IS MISLEADING
Comment: I thought this book would be about a transition from one lifestyle to another. It is more about a disfunctional family and immoral lifestyle. As a non-Amish Christian, I can say that her family had every responsibility as Christians to write to their daughter and encourage her to repent. She was in fact living a sinful lifestyle. She even tries to cover that up making it sound OK to live immorally. The scriptures quoted about divorce and adultry are true and correct. Enough already with the "victim" routine. If the author had really forgiven her family, then this book should never have been written. The Christian attitude would have been to forgive her family, let the matter go and to pray for her family - not to drag them through the mud. She wasn't so innocent herself. There is always hope in the Christian faith - even faith for her father to have the stones rolled away from his heart and be healed from what makes him so controlling and abusive. I work with Amish contractors. I have never remotely sensed any of the author's father's personality or behavior in any of them. I believe this book is an isolated incidence and not the norm. I do not recommend it at all.
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Title: Finding the Way by Barbara Yoder ISBN: 1589300513 Publisher: Selah Publishing Group Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: True Stories of X-Amish: Banned - Shunned - Excommunicated by Ottie A. Garrett, Ben N. Garrett ISBN: 0966793102 Publisher: Neu Leben Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Betrayal (Abram's Daughters, 2) by Beverly Lewis ISBN: 0764223313 Publisher: Bethany House Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Amish Women: Lives and Stories by Louise Stoltzfus ISBN: 1561481297 Publisher: Good Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Sacrifice by Beverly Lewis ISBN: 0764228722 Publisher: Bethany House Pub. Date: May, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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