A Love Undone
An Amish Novel of Shattered Dreams and God's Unfailing Grace
Written by Cindy Woodsmall
I do so
love to read about the Amish, my Grandmother lives in a small town up north
where we see Amish buggies in town all of the time. They do like to purchase/sell
things and see the homeopathic practitioner there.
On to the
book....Joline Keim lost her parents both at the same time in a buggy accident.
she was supposed to marry the love of her life Van, and he just couldn't take
on her entire family of brothers and sisters younger than she, she wouldn't
leave them to be split up, so she takes on the raising if her sister and
brothers. and Van goes off and within a
year is married to someone else. She meets horse trainer and father to a sweet
nine year old. The book is really all about
Andy being a "grass widower".
Joline didn't hear him when he said he was a grass widower and she helps
out with training horses that have been abused to get them to be ride able
again. Joline thinks Andy is a free man
being a widower to marry again and she falls for Andy almost from the first day.
A Grass
Widower is someone who marries and their spouse leaves, they can't divorce it
isn't allowed and in Andy's case he doesn’t even know where his spouse is she
had a mental problem wouldn't be treated for it and just left one day and never
contacted him again. Didn't try to see her
son. So Andy is not someone who can be
marriage material. Joline one day tells
him how she feels about him, she also lets him into her secret, she paints
paintings and she is good. Since their Bishop believes that pictures are not
something that would be allowed by God she has to hide away in her Uncles Attic
to paint.
So we have
a husband and son abandoned to forge a path alone and a young woman who
sacrificed her dreams, how will the God of grace and hope help them find their
way, the book asks?
The book is
rather complex in its story. There is quite a bit of information on how the
Amish live, not quite as much as I've seen in other stories. The book held my interest and I found myself
reading when I should have been doing something else...a true sign that it is a
interesting Amish story about a romance that can't happen and how they get
around it or do they?
"I received this book from Blogging
for Books for this review."
About This Book
A husband and son abandoned to forge a path alone.
A young woman who sacrificed her dreams.
How will the God of grace and hope help them find their way?
At nineteen years old, Old Order Amish Jolene Keim was on the brink of happily-ever-after when everything changed, stealing the future she expected and burdening her with an unbearable decision. For the next ten years, Jolene throws herself into family life—and then she meets Andy Fisher. The horse trainer and father to a sweet nine year-old challenges her and holds up a mirror to issues Jolene has been unwilling to face.
Andy is cautious about his deepening friendship with Jolene, but he believes she knows the truth about him – that he is a grass widower. As a man whose wife has abandoned him six years past, he is unable to divorce or remarry according to the Amish ways. Andy has wrestled with God concerning his reality, and he had found peace with the solitary future facing him…until he met Jolene.
As Andy and Jolene find themselves confronted by difficult choices, will they trust in God's guidance—or will the allure of their deepening friendship only lead to further temptation?
A young woman who sacrificed her dreams.
How will the God of grace and hope help them find their way?
At nineteen years old, Old Order Amish Jolene Keim was on the brink of happily-ever-after when everything changed, stealing the future she expected and burdening her with an unbearable decision. For the next ten years, Jolene throws herself into family life—and then she meets Andy Fisher. The horse trainer and father to a sweet nine year-old challenges her and holds up a mirror to issues Jolene has been unwilling to face.
Andy is cautious about his deepening friendship with Jolene, but he believes she knows the truth about him – that he is a grass widower. As a man whose wife has abandoned him six years past, he is unable to divorce or remarry according to the Amish ways. Andy has wrestled with God concerning his reality, and he had found peace with the solitary future facing him…until he met Jolene.
As Andy and Jolene find themselves confronted by difficult choices, will they trust in God's guidance—or will the allure of their deepening friendship only lead to further temptation?
About This
Author:
Cindy Woodsmall is
a New York Times and CBA best-selling author of numerous works
of fiction and one of nonfiction. Her connection with the Amish community has
been featured widely in national media. She lives in the Foothills of the North
Georgia Mountains with her family.
