The Longing by Beverly Lewis

I just finished the final installment in the "Nellie Fisher" series.

Beverly Lewis does such a great job of researching the Amish community through the years.

I am interested having lived as a small child in a town in Oklahoma that had an Amish community until they moved back East.

Some of the people stayed behind and joined the various levels of Mennonite groups depending on how progressive they desired to be.

I graduated with people whose last names were Zook, Mast, Fisher, Schwartzendruber, Nicewander, and those I have forgotten. It is always interesting to learn of the different cultures around you and I admire these for their commitment to one another and to their way of life.

Beverly weaves a masterful fiction of the sweetest love stories and family tragedies with the most careful attention to accurate detail of the Amish. She is Mennonite so she has some first hand knowledge.

I think that you will truly love her use of the Amish language in these books so be careful or you may becom "ferhoodled".

[dandylion]

I just love Beverly Lewis. I haven't got to read this last book yet but I can't wait to see how the series ends.

I live about 4 hours south of a Amish community and it is so weird to be flying down the road in my truck and all of a sudden realize that there is a horse and buggy on the shoulder.