Home on Huckleberry Hill

Jennifer Beckstrand has provided her readers with an irrepressible couple--Felty and Anna Helmuth--and their family.  Anna has a penchant for matchmaking her grandchildren and bringing them happiness--especially through her unusual recipes and her knitted potholders. BUT her attention changes directions to her married granddaughter, Mary Anne, and her husband, Jethro, who she believes are having troubles.

Mary Anne reaches her final breaking point when she fixes a beautifully prepared dinner and Jethro goes fishing.  While he is out, she moves out of the house into a tent in the woods of their property.

As soon as the family hears--especially Anna and Felty--they move out to the woods to show their solidarity with Mary Anne.

In this book, Jennifer opens up the stereotypes of the Amish culture, and points out the gaps between the Ordnung and the Bible, she rips the blinders off of the leadership so that they can see that marriage is more than the blind obedience of the wives to their husbands. Wives are more than servants to be at the beck and call of the husbands.

Home on Huckleberry Hill breaks down the Amish lifestyle to shine a bit of light and give all of us a lesson on how to treat each other. 

Five Stars, Two Thumbs Up, and a camp fire to sit and find healing.

My thanks to Kensington/Zebra for allowing me to read and review this book.