Rhoda Janzen had reached a crossroads: she had just hit forty when her brilliant husband of fifteen years left her for a guy he met on Gay.com. In the same calamitous week she was hospitalized in a horrible car accident. With no alternatives, Rhoda decided to pack her bags and head home. into the heart of the Christian sect she had spent years longing to escape. Rhoda Janzen might be a bad Mennonite, but nonetheless, her parents and their community welcome her back with open arms, strange food and offbeat advice. ('Why not date your first cousin? He has his own tractor!') It was in this safe place that Rhoda came to terms with her failed marriage; the desire, as a young woman, to leave her sheltered world behind; and the choices that had both freed and entrapped her.

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

Biographies & Memoirs

Rhoda Janzen

Community & Culture

ATLANTIC BOOKS *

The scope of the poets in this collection is as broad as the landscape itself, including work by Heid E. Erdrich, Mark Vinz, Debra Marquart, Ed Bok Lee, Tim Murphy, and North Dakota's Poet Laureate, Larry Woiwode.
Some are poets descended from indigenous inhabitants of the High Plains. Others are descendants of thos who immigrated here from Germany, Russia, or the Scandinavian countries in the nineteenth century, or more recently from other parts of the country and world. They write about the historical struggles of settlement and assimilation, and more contemporary versions of those struggles in the Bakken oil patch in the western part of the state. Some write about North Dakota from the rural settings they have known and loved for a lifetime, others from the distant vantages of nostalgia or escape, and still others from the point of view of transplants coming to terms with their new home. The poets here include seasoned and emerging voices, women and men, old and young, those from the ranching and oil-flared badlands west of the Missouri, and from the flood-prone river valley farmlands of the east.
The poems in this book ache for home. They ache to be at home. In reflecting those who ache in this great expanse, these poems are about what connects us together as humans, poems that sing to each other across lines and pages and space, demonstrating that, as poet Thomas McGrath asserts in his Letter to an Imaginary Friend, North Dakota is everywhere.

North Dakota is Everywhere: An Anthology of Contemporary North Dakota Poets

Literature & Fiction

Aaron Poochigian

Tim Murphy

Robert King

Madelyne Camrud

Debra Marquart

Mark Vinz

Richard, Watson

Ed Bok Lee

Larry Woiwode

Heidi Czerwiec

Heid E. Erdrich

Dale Jacobson

Denise Lajimodiere

Lisa Linrud-Marcis

Jamie Parsley

David R. Solheim

Poetry

North Dakota State University Press

A No-Yawn Guide To College Writing Squeeze The Sponge

Flip Learning

Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?: A Mennonite Finds Faith, Meets Mr. Right, and Solves Her Lady Problems

Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?

Hachette Audio

Squeeze The Sponge

Menonita De Vestidinho Preto

Nossa Cultura

Lieve hemel: hoe ik weer bij mijn ouders introk

Sijthof

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