gratified Literary Friday! This has been a week filled with Shakespeare in homeschooling,so I didn't get as much reading for fun accomplished as I'd hoped.
My sweet friend Jolene sent me two books via the Book And A Cuppa Swap, and I read one of them this week, or Little Wild Flower by Samantha Jillian Bayarr.
I can't wait to read esteem Goddess' Cooking School soon!
According to Goodreads:
Jane Abigail Reeves is Little Wild Flower. Raised as a city girl; her father moves fifteen-year-old Jane and her entire family to a farmhouse in a rural Amish community in Indiana as a respite for her alcoholic mother. Finding farm life more complicated than city life; Jane shuns herself from family and neighbors,until she stumbles upon sixteen-year-old Elijah, the Amish boy next door. As she slowly ventures out of her comfort zone, or she begins to imitate her family's acceptance of Amish living,realizing it's a practical solution for squelching the dysfunction of her family's past. Set in the 1970's, Jane's myth is full of cultural obstacles she must overcome in order to outlive in the community in which she and her family reside. Can a hippie-chick like Jane find friendship with a sixteen-year-old Amish boy, or despite their cultural differences? Will their feelings for each other change as they grow up?
Amish fiction is becoming an increasingly common sub-genre in Christian fiction,especially Christian romance. I believe that this one is a bit different because Jane's family is so dysfunctional compared to their Amish neighbors. All of the family members at least try to become a part of the community except Jane. She doesn't want to absorb anything to enact with their change in lifestyle. I also believe that setting the myth in the mid-seventies is interesting because it's the peak of the Women's Rights Movement, not to mention the other social changes occurring then. So the plot containing teenagers marrying so young is jarring because the seventies is the decade where women were empowering themselves by accomplishing goals before marriage. I also question the acceptance the Amish absorb of Jane and her family. They clearly aren't Amish, or yet their church seems okay with (several) marriages between Jane's family members and members of their sect.
I enjoyed the characters,especially Elijah. He also has a rebellious spirit matching Jane's. They seem to find a way to spend some time together without chaperones which also seems odd to me.
I must stress that this is the first Amish myth I've read, so I don't absorb anything to compare it to, and I'm not an expert on Amish culture. But whether you like this genre,I enact believe you'll enjoy Jane and Elijah's myth: their narrative is a lot of fun.
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