![]() ![]() ![]() One fateful starless night, 17-year-old Ira Wagler got up at 2. Read 1,302 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. I’m quite stunned that your publisher would encourage such hostile writings that would alienate half of your readership on the cusp of a book release. Growing Up Amish by Ira Wagler Growing Up Amish book. This memoir of post-Amish life stumbles, but will help readers see the long-term emotional costs of the decision to leave. I really look forward to seeing the email notice that there is another Ira Wagler blog waiting to be read. ![]() Wagler’s reflections are most engaging when he explores tensions and compromises in visits back to his parents, but, disappointingly, the individual narrative threads do not coalesce into obvious themes and leave a somewhat disjointed feel. He also writes of how his divorce led him to drink too much and helped inspire a career shift from lawyer to writer. Some of the frustrating lack of specifics are partially explained later when Wagler describes starting a discussion and sermon-listening men’s group with the man his wife had an affair with (a fact which is awkwardly added with little unpacking or explanation). He then speeds through recounting his time at Dickinson School of Law and the collapse of his marriage of seven years in 2007. He shares his experience eagerly gaining formal education, first at a community college in the late 1980s, and then his adoring memories of his time at Bob Jones University. He is currently general manager of Graber Supply, LLC and Pole Building Co. Wagler follows his memoir Growing Up Amish with this soul-searching but muddled recollection of what happened after he left the Amish faith at age 26. ![]()
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