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Publisher: Ragged Sky Press (July 1, 2017)
Publication Date: July 1, 2017
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Language: English
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Loved hearing about Cynthia's experience growing up in a Mennonite family and community. Wonderful insight into the Mennonite world and how the author ultimately mainstreamed but brought with her powerful qualities and noble character traits from her childhood.
This book brings back old feelings. I would have liked a little bit more of the Mennonite culture interwoven in the story.
Crazy Quilt is a joyful read for anyone who values their roots as they move forward in life. After leaving Manhattan, graduate school, and a hippie husband, Yoder reconnects with her roots in rural, Mennonite Pennsylvania. She explores her past by collecting stories from her elders and makes peace with her demons. The best part for me was that she finds a common thread--a desire for a peaceful life--despite the various ways one can achieve that goal. The chapters are full of colorful detail and the book moves quickly. While reading it, I thought of my own parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and our observant Jewish background. I also wondered how I can give my grandchildren the same opportunity to be rooted and they blossom. It is a delightful peek into a year of one's life that leaves the reader thinking of her own traditions and family. Highly recommended.
In my opinion, what makes a book truly worth reading is the providing of not just an interesting read but also an important lesson. In the memoir Crazy Quilt, Cynthia Yoder gives great insight into the life of dedicated members of the Mennonite community as well as advice that everyone can use. Although her own story may have a fuzzy background and an uncertain ending, her readers are taken on a journey as they follow the author's search for identity and an ideal future. Cynthia was born into a family whose lifestyle defines the Mennonite lifestyle. With her father being a Mennonite priest and holding their community's church services in her own home, Cynthia is expected to live the pure life of a priest's daughter. However, even though she has a love for God at the time, Cynthia longs for a more worldly life as is lived by her friends. Throughout her childhood and teen years, there's a continuous internal struggle between her church-going, modest-clothes self and her rock n' roll, movie-going self. As Cynthia ages into her 20s, her faith in God withers to become practically non-existent. With a combination of loss of direction for her life and trouble maintaining a love-bond with her husband, she falls into a pit of depression. At times, she even believes she sees materialized forms of her depression and sinister faces in inanimate objects, causing her to question her own sanity. In an attempt to gain direction for her life, Cynthia moves out of her New York apartment to stay with her devoted Mennonite grandparents while her husband, in or order to give her space, travels extensively in Europe. While staying at her grandparents' house where she has fond memories visiting as a child, Cynthia conducts oral interviews with her grandparents to learn their life story. At first, her depression doesn't improve, still feeling at loss for direction to take in her life and occasionally seeing the cynical faces. As months pass by, though, Cynthia becomes more relaxed in the country setting and feels a sense of belonging among her family members, whose customs she had deserted. She learns of how different life was for her grandparents and of the many challenges they faced. However, instead of crumpling under life's pressures, they looked to God for strength and found support in their family and Mennonite community. Gradually, Cynthia adopts some of her grandparents' ideals, such as focusing on the positive side of life and living one day at a time. By the time her husband finishes his travels and wants to move back into their apartment together, she faces a difficult decision. Just as when she was a child, she must once again choose between the spiritual, family-oriented Mennonite way of life and the way of the world. However, her position is reversed. This time she has the worldly life and it's the Mennonite way that is enticing her. Overall I really liked Crazy Quilt. Cynthia Yoder does a really nice job of painting pictures with her words to give readers a vivid image of scenes from her life. Furthermore, she is not afraid to give information about less flattering aspects of her life, which holds the readers' interest. She gives specific details of her younger rebellious actions as she tried to experience what it was like to be normal like her friends. At times, the reader may even question her sanity as she once did because she gives excellent insight into her mental struggles which cause her to hallucinate. Intermittently, Cynthia will jump back to the past to describe some memory she has of being with her friends or visiting her grandparents as a child. This shifting between present and past events is refreshing and keeps readers from being lulled by what would otherwise be monotonous storytelling by her grandparents. I believe Crazy Quilt is suitable for all ages. Younger readers can appreciate how different life was just a couple generations ago while older readers can, in some way or another, relate to the stories told by Cynthia's grandparents. There are portions of Cynthia's story that may leave readers not quite satisfied. I believe her back-story is somewhat underdeveloped because she gives little detail as to when and how she broke free of her Mennonite traditions and customs to live out in the world. Additionally, the underlying plot of the book is about Cynthia trying to get over her depression and find the right path for her life. However, she never really identifies what caused her depression. The reader is left guessing at what is causing her to remain depressed and whether or not staying with her grandparents is helping. Also, the ending of the book leaves a bit to be desired. As the book progresses, it becomes clear that Cynthia is again experiencing the internal struggle of deciding between the Mennonite life and the worldly life. However, she attempts to bring closure to her story in the last chapter of the book, which spans a mere three pages. She never clarifies which lifestyle she chose to lead. There is a few years' gap between her being with her grandparents and where she ends her story, with no real transition to connect the two parts of her life. The sudden drop off from the story and poor conclusion leave readers hanging. Despite these negativities, this book has something to offer all readers. First, the author records first-hand accounts of what life is like being a Mennonite and the vast differences of how life was over half a century ago from today. Therefore, this book offers valuable historical information. Additionally, the author describes how she came to find comfort and support in the midst of a dark and depressing time in her life. She also conveys advice given to her by her experienced grandparents on ideals about life. Not only is Crazy Quilt an interesting read, but it also provides courage and hope to all who have faced life's challenges.
The memoir which I read was called Crazy Quilt: Pieces of a Mennonite Life by Cynthia Yoder. It describes how Cynthia attempts to address her mental health problems through her visit with her Mennonite family. I feel that the author uses vivid language to express her internal feelings. Though the organization of this memoir was creative, it was hard to follow. Overall, I feel that this is a good memoir to provide direction for readers who feel abandoned by God.At the beginning of the memoir, Cynthia begins to have some mental problems while living with her husband, Jonathan, in New York. Cynthia says, "During the three years I'd been living in New York since college, I'd accepted a low-grade emotional burn as a normal part of getting through the day" (Yoder 13). Cynthia feels emptiness inside her soul and body and has some delusions which complicate her work, life, and marriage. Therefore, she decides to go back home and collect stories from her Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite family. She says, "Maybe I would learn something I'd forgotten, or a thing not learned well enough the first time around." She hopes that she can start over again by living with her family" (Yoder 17).After going back to the place where she was born and grew up, Cynthia begins to figure out what kind of life she wants and learned how to live her life happily and freely. When she was young, Cynthia always felt isolated from her schoolmates and as an adult she feels separated from the culture around her because of the strict rules enforced by her Mennonite family. Cynthia's loneliness and feelings of isolation are evident when she says, "My friends, my neighborhood playmates, almost everyone I related to as a child was `the world'-the people I supposedly was separate from" (Yoder 22). Cynthia regards her father more like a Mennonite minister than like a father. Returning home gives her a chance to openly talk with her father and rebuild relationships. Interviewing her grandparents and her other relatives gives her a good chance to understand how her grandparents have lived their life simply and happily. Although they encounter a lot of difficulties in their lives, Cynthia's grandparents always look at the positive side of issues. The quote, "I was learning from Henry and Betts that the best thing you could do was to live each day in the best way you knew" demonstrates how Cynthia's grandparents encourage her to live each day in the "best" way possible (Yoder 145). After Cynthia's grandma's death, she says, "I promised, I vowed that I would do everything I could to live freely...... and I would take advantage of what was offered to me" (Yoder 155). Through the help of her therapist, Melvin, the time she spent with her grandparents, and her Mennonite family, Cynthia begins to learn how to love herself, her family, Jonathan, and her life. Now, Cynthia and her husband have their own baby and are managing their marriage well. Although her grandparents die a few years later, after she moves back to New York, and goes back to visit her hometown when she feels lost. Since it is a memoir about Mennonite life, I initially felt that Cynthia's targeted audience was other Mennonites. However, after I read the memoir multiple times, I felt that it provided good direction for people who abandoned by God. God never leaves anyone; sometimes people just make their lives too complex and do not pay attention to the bright side of their life. Cynthia felt she was so restrained by the rules of being a Mennonite that she had become separated from the culture and people around her. She was not allowed to watch cartoons, go shopping, or go to the movie theater like other kids. Cynthia says, "I saw God as a deity who required that I earn his approval"; and her statement shows that she felt as if she must follow restrictive Mennonite guidelines in order to earn God's approval. When she heard her grandfather Henry's stories about his spiritual connection with God while he was sick, Cynthia was reminded of her relationship with God at a young age. When Cynthia was at a Jesus rally, she prayed to God to cure her back pain. As she was praying, she felt heat on her back which did cure her back pain (Yoder 132). When she stopped thinking the things her religion restricted her from considering and paid more attention to the positive side, Cynthia found that God was always around her and waited for her attention. She also realized that she did have a spiritual connection with God. Being with her Mennonite family reminded Cynthia of some original, simple and significant things which she had forgotten. Being a Mennonite, which she thought separated her from the culture around her, actually helped her live happily and freely. No matter whether people are Mennonite or follow other religions, going back to their roots and seeing the world through pure eyes will help them find a simple way to live happily and freely. After reading through this memoir, I felt that the author is very good at using metaphors to express her personal feelings. Since the author had some mental problems, she always has some strange delusions when she stares at things for a long period of time. She describes one delusion of a "presence" in a room by saying it rolled like ocean water and was just big enough (I noticed) for me to disappear into it, if that had been its choice (Yoder 14). No matter how hard she tries to tell herself that the delusion is made up, the thing still like ocean water, swallows the author's thoughts and makes her lose control of her mind. Since it is often hard to describe personal feelings in words, the author intelligently uses the metaphor of the feeling that she was being swallowed by an ocean, which accurately expresses feelings of being out of control or overwhelmed. This metaphor draws a vivid picture for readers that Cynthia is a tiny part of larger whole that was swallowed by the huge power of the ocean. Another example can also demonstrate the author's good language skills when describing her inner feelings. The author's grandma, Betts, describes how her mother used to be a hard working woman before she was diagnosed with heart disease in her forties. The author describes Betts remembering her own mother by writing: "Betts paused and looked at the back of one hand, rubbing it as if to wipe away the age spots" (Yoder 56). This quote accurately describes Betts' inner feelings of missing her mother and how time flies. Betts might imagine the time when she was a little girl who followed her hardworking mother. Betts is talking with her granddaughter, Cynthia, many years after her own mother passed away. Betts does not realize how fast time goes until she sees the age spots showing on her hand. Betts wonders how wonderful it would be if her age masks were wiped away and time reversed. It is impressive that such a short sentence can convey all those inner feelings.The organization of the memoir is creative but hard to follow. At the beginning of the memoir, the author describes her mental problems by saying she feels empty inside and has a lot of delusions. This opening is both interesting and confusing. On one hand, it does not clearly state the reasons why Cynthia has mental problems, which makes readers feel lost and confused. On the other hand, it also intrigues readers to continue reading in order to find out the reasons why she has mental problems. When the author describes her life back home with her Mennonite family, she gets the chance to insert her past stories with her family and husband. Later, the reason for Cynthia's mental problems starts to become clear. The main storyline of this memoir is about the author's trip back home. Along with this mainline, the author also mentions some past life stories which help her strengthen her main storyline. For example, in the memoir, she explains that she has open communication with her father. She tells him about how she struggles with aspects of her life and how difficult it is to separate her farther from his role as a minister. Her father apologizes for the times he was critical of her. They hug each other and start a new relationship with each other. Before she describes this main story of being home, the author describes her past relationship with her family. She was a Mennonite who had to follow a lot of strict rules. She was not allowed to watch cartoons, listen to other music and so on. All those past stories help her enhance her main storyline about her relationship with her father.At the end of memoir, I feel that there is a gap in the changes in her relationship with Jonathan. After the author describes her grandparents' deaths, she says that she and Jonathan moved back to New York. It seems that she omitted the part about how they rebuilt their relationship, what makes them feel comfortable being together again, and how they finally decided to go back to New York. All of that missing information creates a disconnection for readers. Cynthia Yoder's memoir describes how she comes out of her dark mental state through her visit with her Mennonite family. She creates a vivid picture for readers to understand. She also builds an intriguing story structure to catch readers' attention. However, the disconnection at the end of memoir creates a lack of continuity. Overall, I feel that Crazy Quilt will build a spiritual connection with those people who feel abandoned by God.
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