Every time I review a non-fiction book on this blog, I always say non-fiction isn't normally my book of choice, but every once in a while I find one that I actually finish reading as opposed to jettisoning after only two chapters. This is the first memoir that I've read. I started this book and after two chapters I was undecided as to whether or not to continue reading. In the meantime I read another chapter and just like that a switch flipped and I was in it for the rest of the book. As someone from Pennsylvania Dutch country and who is 100% Pennsylvania German, I assumed the Mennonite of the title was of this history, heritage, and extraction. Our own Mennonites (and Amish as well others of German heritage) immigrated to PA from Germany in the eighteenth century. As someone who has been researching family history for many years, I've read a little bit about this early German immigration. There were several waves of German immigrants to the New Wor...
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