Rolling Down Black Stockings
37.00€
| ISBN | 9780873388283 |
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| Book Format | Paperback |
| Learning Stage | A Level, Advanced (16+) |
- Published:31 Mar 2005
- A rare memoir of growing up Old Order MennoniteRolling Down Black Stockings is a personal recollection of Esther Royer Ayers’s youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is as much a search for identity and a longing for a mother’s love as it is a tale about a totalitarian culture that led to her departure from the Old Order Mennonite religion. This poignant story is told in three books: book 1 describes her youth in a farm community on the outskirts of Columbiana, Ohio; book 2 follows the struggles of Ayers as she tries to fit in with another culture after leaving the church when her family moves to Akron, Ohio; and book 3 discusses the history and cultural dynamics of the religion.
