| Recommendations
Reviewers are flashing
thumbs up on the memoir:
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Publisher’s Weekly:
“Reed’s prose is sharp,
even gleeful, but his stories
take faith seriously.”
• Willard Gingerich,
Professor of American Literature
and former Provost, Montclair
State University: “You
will find much to identify with
in Ken Yoder Reed’s story
of a unique and also emblematic
life. From Lancaster County to
Japan to Silicon Valley--first
love found and lost, questions
of service during Vietnam, silent
and out loud questionings of a
faith lost, then found. And for
Reed, finding a novelist’s
voice in a tradition that saw
no place for artistic expression
not bent to the ready service
of the Mennonite message.”
• James Wenger,
Pastor and Japan Missionary:
“This is a terrific book--
the best written cross-cultural
memoir I have ever read. Reed
went to Japan as a conscientious
objector during Vietnam and lived
with a Japanese family for three
years, while teaching English
there. His description of his
experience in Japan alone is worth
the price of the book.”
• Noriaki Gentsu,
Japanese Journalist:
“Initially, I was uncertain:
Can an atheistic Baby Boomer from
a Buddhist family in Japan really
understand the Mennonite world
described in this memoir? My doubts
disappeared as I delved into the
idyllic Mennonite community of
the 1950s and 60s. Reed evaluates
his past from the distance of
forty years and from two perspectives:
then and now. This resonates with
me, a non-Christian Baby Boomer,
wanting to reflect on my own life.
I give it five stars!”
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