Crossing Over-One Woman's Exodus From Amish Life

•  This is a great read if you are interested in the inner workings of Amish family and faith.It is about Ruth Irene Garrett,who was a member of the Old Order Amish from the Kalona,Iowa area who left the church in 1996 for a three time divorced man,who was 400 lb and twenty years older than her that drove a van hauling Amish.She married Ottie Garrett and became English.It tells of the inner workings of the Amish faith and the Bann(shunning).Irene struggled with being shunned,and thought she was damned to hell if she died in the Bann and was not right with the Amish church.It shows a lot of the indoctrination of children into the Amish faith starting at a very young age,and how emotionally and mentally hard it is to leave the Amish faith.
• This book breaks through the stereotype a lot of people have about the Amish culture from reading Amish fiction novels(which I love to read) and sheds light on a lot of the misconceptions people have of the Amish culture.