In this searching book, Shachtman draws on his skills as a documentarian to capture young people on the cusp of a fateful decision, and to give us an original and deeply affecting portrait of the Amish as a whole. A revelatory look at Amish youth as they have never been looked at before. By allowing them such freedom, their parents hope they will learn enough to help them make the most important decision of their lives-whether to be baptized as Christians, join the church, and forever give up worldly ways, or to remain out in the world. Rumspringa by Tom Shachtman available in Trade Paperback on, also read synopsis and reviews.
The key to this is the rumspringa, when Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, trendy clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties. The trappings of the Amish way of life-the "plain" clothes and electricity-free farms-conceal the communities' mystery: how they manage to retain their young people and perpetuate themselves generation after generation. Offers an account of Amish life as a mirror to the soul-searching and questing that we recognize as a generally intrinsic part of adolescence. Through vivid portraits of teenagers in Ohio and Indiana, Tom Shachtman Rumspringa is a fascinating look at a little-known Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa-the period of "running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. A revelatory look at Amish youth as they have never been looked at before
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