Called to Be Amish: My Journey from Head Majorette to the Old Order Kenzaburo OE ISBN13: 9781573830577

ISBN13: 9781573830577

This book is based on the author's own battle against his myasthenia gravis some three decades ago

'Fairy Wiles'

and polemics reveal the central ideas of the Cahiers of the 1950s not as fixed doctrines but as provocative

the son of two Holocaust Survivors

Called to Be Amish: My Journey from Head Majorette to the Old Order Kenzaburo OE ISBN13: 9781573830577Fewer than one hundred outsiders have joined the Old Order Amish and stayed since 1950. Marlene C. Miller is one of them. In this rare memoir, Marlene recounts her unhappy and abusive childhood, how she throws herself into cheerleading and marching band, and how she falls in love with Johnny, the gentle young Amish man who helps her lace her ice skates. Against the wishes of both sets of parents, Marlene and Johnny get married and begin a family.