Rumspringa - Annotated by Tom Shachtman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Through vivid portraits of teenagers in Ohio and Indiana, the author offers an account of Amish life as a mirror to the soul-searching and questing recognized as a generally intrinsic part of adolescence.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Rumspringa </i>is Tom Shachtman's celebrated look at a littleknown Amish coming-of-age ritual, the <i>rumspringa--</i>the period of "running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. During this time, Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, revealing clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties. By allowing such broad freedoms, their parents hope they will learn enough to help them make the most important decision of their lives--whether to be baptized as Christians, join the church, and forever give up worldly ways, or to remain in the world.</p><p>In this searching book, Shachtman draws on his skills as a documentarian to capture young people on the cusp of a fateful decision, and to give us "one of the most absorbing books ever written about the Plain People" (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"[A] wonderfully rich portrait and history of the Amish as a people." --<i>Donna Freitas, The Wall Street Journal</i></p><p>"Shachtman is like a maestro, masterfully conducting an orchestra of history, anthropology, psychology, sociology, and journalism together in a harmonious and evocative symphony of all things Amish." --<i>Richard Horan, The Christian Science Monitor</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Tom Shachtman</b> is an award-winning documentarian and the author of many books, including <i>Skyscraper Dreams</i>, <i>Around the Block</i>, and <i>The Day America Crashed</i>.</p>
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