![]() I live in one of the non-Amish areas that the author talks about visiting, so it was interesting to see his observations and experiences in my own area. However, by the time the author began talking about his teenage years and Rumspringa, I was hooked. I thought the book started off a little slow. ![]() Reading Growing Up Amish was like seeing a side of Amish culture that I had not been exposed to before. In the Christian fiction realm, the Amish way of life is often idealized. In this memoir Ira candidly shares the myriad of experiences that his life journey consisted of.Growing Up Amish by Ira Wagler peals away common stereotypes and misconceptions about the Amish people and reveals one man's journey in and out of the Amish world. At twenty-six, he left Amish permanently. Over the course of the next nine years, Ira would repeatedly return to the Amish and then leave again. After watching most of his older siblings leave the Amish way of life, Ira followed suit at age seventeen. ![]() Growing up in the Amish way suited Ira only until he became a young man. ![]() Born on a hot August day, Ira Wagler was raised in the Old Order Amish community of Aylmer, Ontario. ![]()
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