You also see a man who still highly respects his family and the culture he came from, never portraying them in a bad light but simply telling it how it is. You see raw emotion in this book, the good and the bad, the pretty and the ugly, you get to see a boy become a man and question the world he knows. This however in itself is an interesting thing. Growing Up Amish is the true story of one man’s quest to discover who he is and where he belongs.
I'll note that the book isn't a look at a typical Amish life as Ira was one that hardly questioned the lifestyle and left the community a handful of times. This book gave me an adequate look into the Amish way of life. Ira Wagler’s New York Times bestseller, Growing Up Amish (2011), can be viewed as a further extension of the body of literature that focuses on oppression, agency, and survival. I even buy cheese and apple butter from them regularly but never really talk to them past doing business. Give the Audible book a go the narrator is great! I've always been curious as to the Amish way of life due to the fact we have a healthy population of them (and other Anabaptist groups) here in Indiana and you'll regularly see them at the Zoo as well as around the towns surrounding Indianapolis. One of my recent Audible purchases was Growing up Amish: A Memoir by Ira Wagler which you can find on Amazon (just click the Amazon banner on the right hand side of my page and give it a click then search the title). I listen to audible books at work, as well as read traditionally at home. New York Times eBook bestseller One fateful starless night, 17-year-old Ira Wagler got up at 2 AM, left a scribbled note under his pillow, packed all of. Have you listened to any of Adam Verner’s other performances before? How does this one compare? Where does Growing Up Amish rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
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