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A Place of Peace
Amy Clipston

A Place of Peace

Zondervan (Dec 14, 2010)
9780310319955
| Trade Paperback
336 pages | 130 x 206 mm | Italian
Dewey 813/.6
LC Classification PS3603.L58 .P55 2011

Genre

  • Christian Fiction

Subject

  • Amish/ Fiction
  • Fiction / Christian / General
  • Fiction / General

Plot

Miriam Lapp, who left the Amish community in Pennsylvania three years ago, is heartbroken when her sister calls to reveal that her mother has died suddenly. Traveling home to Pennsylvania, she is forced to face the heartache from her past, including her rift from her family and the break up of her engagement with Timothy Kauffman.Her past emotional wounds are reopened when her family rejects her once again and she finds out that Timothy is in a relationship with someone else. Miriam discovers that the rumors that broke them up three years ago were all lies. However, when Timothy proposes to his girlfriend and Miriam's father disowns her, Miriam returns to Indiana with her heart in shambles.When Miriam's father has a stroke, Miriam returns to Pennsylvania, and her world begins to fall apart, leaving her to question her place in the Amish community and her faith in God.