Story Description:
Baker Publishing
Group|August 1, 2013|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-0-7642-1001-3
Judith Miller’s
Novels Offer a Fascinating Look inside the Amana Colonies.
Joining the
communal society of the Amana Colonies isn’t what Jancey Rhoder planned for her
future but when unforeseen circumstances force her family to make some
difficult decisions, she chooses to give up her teaching position in a Kansas
City orphanage and move with her parents to Iowa.
Her besotted
suitor, Nathan Woodwoard, isn’t at all happy about the move and is determined
to get Jancey to change her mind. And
Jancey herself isn’t sure what she’s gotten herself into when the simple life
of the Amana Colonies means she’ll be assigned a job and may have to give up
teaching for good. Will Nathan woo her
back to the city, or will she be forever changed by the mysterious events and
new relationships that await her in the quiet villages on the Amana Colonies –
and decide to make this unique place her forever home?
My Review:
Jancey Rhoder was
very happy with her volunteer job teaching the children; six boys and four
girls, ranging in age from five to ten years.
All the children loved Jancey as much as she loved them. All the children were orphans of the Kansas
City Charity Home.
During her off
time, Jancey dated Nathan Woodward - he
hoped to marry her one day in the near future.
She still lived at home with her parents but her mother was very unwell
and dying. Jancey helped her father with
caring for her as best she could.
One evening father
said that he and mother needed to speak to Jancey about something and it
sounded serious. He started off by
saying that they’d already made a number of changes to the house in order to
accommodate her mother’s declining health.
The current sitting room had once been a guest bedroom, and they’d even
moved the dining table to one end of the room in order to eat their meals
together when Mother couldn’t navigate the stairs. At this point, Jancey was wondering what else
her father could possibly say, then he dropped a bomb – they were moving to
Iowa!!!! Jancey’s mother wanted to move
back to the Amana Colonies where she had roots from years before. To say the least, Jancey was shocked – what did
this mean for her? Will she stay in
Kansas and continue to teach? Where
would she live? How would she support herself? What about Nathan? Should she go to the Amana Colonies with her
parents? What about her mother’s
declining health, could father care for her on his own without her? Oh dear, Jancey had so, so many questions to
answer but answer them she does.
A Simple Change was a most interesting read.
“Book has been
provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications,
Inc.
Available at your
favourite bookseller from Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group.”
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