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Amish Values for Your Family

What We Can Learn from the Simple Life
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Amish Values for Your Family: What We Can Learn from the Simple Life. Revell. Aug. 2011. c.192p. ISBN 9780800719968. pap. $12.99. REL
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Fisher, author (Amish Peace) and host of the radio program Amish Wisdom, has rapidly established herself as a kind of conduit for outsiders interested in learning about Old Order and Amish traditions—a kind of inheritance from her "Plain" grandfather. Most Americans knew little about the Amish before seeing the Harrison Ford film Witness; many then promptly forgot about this small cluster of communities known for their adherence to an Anabaptist faith and their uneasy rejection of most features of modern life. Here, Fisher shares the anecdotes of Amish friends and emphasizes the lessons to be learned from them.
VERDICT While we are all in danger of misunderstanding the Amish and celebrating a falsely folksy, twee quality, Fisher's work attempts to establish firmer links between Amish values and our world without entirely embracing their choices or rejecting ours; readers of the increasingly popular stream of Amish fiction should enjoy this taste of Amish reality.
Reviewed by Graham Christian , Jul 01, 2011
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