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A love story. A search for identity in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. A ground-breaking memoir.
In her mid-twenties and in a state of despair, Cynthia leaves her husband, and drops out of her studies at Columbia University. She moves home to rural Pennsylvania to collect stories from her Pennsylvania German Mennonite family. While living with her aunt and uncle, she confronts her own demons and makes peace with a heritage she has felt at odds with. Yoder’s account of that year became one of the first slice-of-life Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite memoirs to be published. Crazy Quilt is was released on Kindle, July, 2017 by Ragged Sky Press, Princeton. The book includes favorite Pennsylvania Dutch recipes from her grandmother's kitchen.