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Ruth Holtz loves life as an Amish wife and mother in Pennsylvania but her husband has bigger, practical dreams of having enough land to yield enough crops and farm products for a large, large family. Ruth also loves the care and cooperation of the Amish community and can’t imagine living without them. At first Ruth thinks it’s nothing but her husband’s fantasy, so imagine her surprise when Aaron announces they are heading for Idaho. The novel travels back and forth between their animosity once the decision is made without her input and the immense difficulty of their journey in a home-built Conestoga wagon. The latter is an adventure in itself!
At first the challenge as they travel is nothing more than a sense of Ruth’s grief at leaving behind family, friends and the Amish community. But then rainstorms, cold, floods, ice, disease, and trouble with the “English” whom they meet looms larger and larger to the point where Ruth wonders if they will ever finish what seems to be a God-forsaken journey.
During the trip Ruth makes two good friends, Hortense a preacher’s wife and Sadie a tough little woman, and much later other friends who become her new world. Each new person has his or her own motives and ultimately some turn out faithful and one in particular an unexpected betrayer. Sadly enough there are several huge losses that almost take away Ruth’s survival spirit and make her question God and her prayers to him for so much.
An Unseemly Wife is a lovely and tough story that never fails to keep the reader totally engaged. The reader wants so much for Ruth and the author satisfies, while never giving up honesty as in Aaron’s stubborn will regarding the future. In some external ways, Ruth is a stereotypical woman of the time, but the author makes the internal thoughts and feelings of Ruth uniquely real and fascinating as this woman changes from a compliant, meek woman to a strong, even tough, woman, manifesting the strength necessary to live a fruitful life in the American West. Her and her family’s journey with its losses and triumphs is symbolic of so many who became part of the westward expansion of America’s borders. E. B. Moore depicts it so well and gives the reader a wonderful read in the process!


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An Unseemly Wife EB Moore 9780451469984 Books Reviews

Transported to a place, lifestyle and mindset, it was a joy to learn about this culture and people through the lives of this character. A beautifully researched and compassionate look at the life (heart and mind) of a woman wanting so much to find a way to be true to her marriage, faith and family while finding a way to make a place in the world that worked for her.
I thought this was a sweet story about a menonite family moving west to have greater opportunities for their children. Characters are well-developed, writing is superb. I listened to the audio version and enjoyed the narration
This is a story of the Amish community and how one family decided to travel west with a caravan of English families. This book is about the conflict between staying separate and needing the help of others. But not all help was helpful. Along the way they learn to view people on an individual basis rather than categorizing them according to their heritage.
Wow! What a debut! I finished this book about a week ago, and still the characters lurk through my day. Ruth's longing is palpable, her courage, inspirational, especially in the midst of unimaginable (but very real) tragedy. Moore's poetry roots shimmer throughout the pages with phrases and images that conjure the smells, sounds, heat and cold and mud and stench of the Holtz family's terrible voyage. Am still trying to figure out how E.B. Moore can write about time, place, community, and mores so distant and yet create a character so current in her dilemma between loyalty and independence, duty and yearning, convention and originality. I suspect there are many of us out there who are "unseemly wives," still holstering our voice and strength. Ruth has much to teach us. Thank you, E.B. Moore! I look forward to the next chapter in your writing.
So when I see bonnet strings on the cover of a book, my hand generally doesn't linger there and instead goes to another book. But I read this because I have an opportunity later this month to see the author speak with a friend of mine, and I think this story will stay with me for a long time. It chronicles the migration attempt of an Amish family from Lancaster PA to Idaho in 1867, and the troubles they face drew me in more and more as the journey unfolds. Instead of cloying Christian overtones, the book recognizes the importance of religion to the characters without hitting the reader over the head with it. This novel is based on the author's ancestors who made a similar, trouble-filled trek. The details of making such a trip in a covered wagon were really well done. An absorbing read.
What a surprise! I was scheduled to attend a reading by this author, a new author, and expected very little. Instead I found a beautifully written and unusual story full of fascinating historical/cultural information and insight. The twists and turns of the story have haunted me so that here I am, a year later, writing a review and putting the book in my pile to reread, even though it's one of those books you remember for a long time.
E.B. Moore has published poetry and the poet's touch is very evident in the writing, yet this is not a romantic view of settlers conquering the West with grit and determination. It describes the hardship of the western journey, with the added wrinkle that Ruth and Aaron and their littles are leaving a close-knit Amish community and have no choice but to go in a caravan with "the English". If she did not write so well, the slow painful journey of the family, would have become the same for the reader. The story is told from Ruth's point of view, and my only serious criticism is that we spend a lot of time in her head retreading well-worn ground...It is true that that is the way the mind works, but it doesn't necessarily keep the reader's attention throughout. Unlike many books that seem to run out of steam at the end, this one has a very satisfactory ending.
Ruth Holtz loves life as an Amish wife and mother in Pennsylvania but her husband has bigger, practical dreams of having enough land to yield enough crops and farm products for a large, large family. Ruth also loves the care and cooperation of the Amish community and can’t imagine living without them. At first Ruth thinks it’s nothing but her husband’s fantasy, so imagine her surprise when Aaron announces they are heading for Idaho. The novel travels back and forth between their animosity once the decision is made without her input and the immense difficulty of their journey in a home-built Conestoga wagon. The latter is an adventure in itself!
At first the challenge as they travel is nothing more than a sense of Ruth’s grief at leaving behind family, friends and the Amish community. But then rainstorms, cold, floods, ice, disease, and trouble with the “English” whom they meet looms larger and larger to the point where Ruth wonders if they will ever finish what seems to be a God-forsaken journey.
During the trip Ruth makes two good friends, Hortense a preacher’s wife and Sadie a tough little woman, and much later other friends who become her new world. Each new person has his or her own motives and ultimately some turn out faithful and one in particular an unexpected betrayer. Sadly enough there are several huge losses that almost take away Ruth’s survival spirit and make her question God and her prayers to him for so much.
An Unseemly Wife is a lovely and tough story that never fails to keep the reader totally engaged. The reader wants so much for Ruth and the author satisfies, while never giving up honesty as in Aaron’s stubborn will regarding the future. In some external ways, Ruth is a stereotypical woman of the time, but the author makes the internal thoughts and feelings of Ruth uniquely real and fascinating as this woman changes from a compliant, meek woman to a strong, even tough, woman, manifesting the strength necessary to live a fruitful life in the American West. Her and her family’s journey with its losses and triumphs is symbolic of so many who became part of the westward expansion of America’s borders. E. B. Moore depicts it so well and gives the reader a wonderful read in the process!