Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home

"Wonderfully intelligent and frank . . . snort-up-your-coffee funny, breezy yet profound, and poetic without trying."
-- Kate Christensen "New York Times"

Janzen is always ready to gently turn the humor back on herself . . . and women will immediately warm to the self-deprecating honesty with which she describes the efforts of friends and family to help her re-establish her emotional well-being.
"Publishers Weekly" [starred review]"

Hillary Huber's narration has a sharp edge that deals effectively with the ironic humor that runs throughout this memoir.
"AudioFile" "

Wonderfully intelligent and frank . . . snort-up-your-coffee funny, breezy yet profound, and poetic without trying.
Kate Christensen, "New York Times" "

A poet describes how, after her husband of fifteen years left her for a relationship with a man and she subsequently was seriously injured in a car crash, she returned home to her close-knit Mennonite family and came to terms with her failed marriage and the choices that both freed and entrapped her. Simultaneous.