The Road Home

Beverly Lewis is a favorite author of mine. In “The Road Home”, Ms. Lewis tells the tragic tale of the Schwartz family, who live in Michigan. They are an Amish family with ten children. Lena Rose is the oldest and has been a great help to her mother and a loving caretaker of her younger siblings. She has a beau in her community and is looking forward to a life with him. Then tragedy strikes when the Schwartz parents are killed in an accident. Lena Rose wants to keep them together, but the Amish bishops and common sense tell her that she cannot provide a living for all of them. They decide to place the children with other families in their Amish community, but Lena Rose is sent to distant cousins in Pennsylvania.

At first Lena Rose is inconsolable at losing her closeness with her many siblings. However, her new family is very loving and cares for her as their own daughter. Soon, she begins to fit in with that community and is even becoming enamored by a young man. She denies this to herself because she believes that she is committed to Hans back in Michigan. Finding out that he is courting another young woman back home gives her the freedom to move on with her life.

Her community in Michigan keeps trying to find her a job so that she can move back with her sisters and brothers and they finally succeed. She longs to go home, but what about Arden, her suitor from Pennsylvania? Maybe all will work out in the end.

Typical book of Beverly Lewis, you start to read and can't stop. I love the book. When you read this book you end up in the Amish country and can feel the pain and joy of the caracters of the people in this book.