Separate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery | P. L. Gaus

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	Separate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery P. L. Gaus Ohio University Press, 2008 - 184 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Separate from the World is a story of a rift between two Amish factions, one that favors the use of medicine and that participates in a college study of genetic traits particular to the Amish community, and the other that rejects any outside influence. Once more, P. L. Gaus takes us inside a separate culture and, in a manner both gentle and grim, highlights the complex relationship of the Amish and the ?English? as they live inside or outside each other?s orbits.

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[[ASIN:0821418157 Separate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery
This is the sixth book in a series by Gaus. It reminds me of the Hillerman books about SW Native Americans, in that a good story is used to convey understanding about various aspects of a different element (in this case Amish) of American culture. Most of the books in the series are quite good, although the second, Broken English, dove too deeply into technical aspects of weaponry and destroyed the focus on the human element. Separate from the World cleverly shows the conflicts within the Amish community over dealing with science and the "English" (the non-Amish).

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