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Title: The Prodigal (Abram's Daughters #4)
ISBN: B001AQY00E
Author:
Beverly Lewis
Publicate Date: 2004-10-01
Publish: 2004-10-01
List Price: $12.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: I felt I was a part of the story
I loved this book, I could hardly put it down. Beverly Lewis writes her books in mini-series form and they are funny, have the ability to transport you to being part of the Amish (watch out though you may find yourself speaking like the Amish!)and they also leave unanswered questions in each book that make you want to finish the entire series to get the final answers. She puts some interesting twists and turns in the book. Overall, I think The Prodigal and the books that go with it are a "must read".
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2: Leah is the family matriarch holding it all together for everyone
In the Prodigal, the Ebersol family is growing up and away. Mary Ruth has turned Mennonite and married Robert, the doctor's son. She is expecting her first child.
Lydiann is up to her rumpspringhe years already, and has met up with Jake, who unbeknownst to both of them are aunt and nephew. It will be discovered by Leah that Sadie's so-called stillborn son is still very much alive. She makes that discovery by accident while working for the doctor. What she soon discovers is that the doctor had switched the babies around when Fannie Mast really did have a stillborn child, and one living boy. Then when Sadie's baby begins breathing suddenly, he gives Sadie's boy to Fannie, knowing it would avoid disgrace to the Ebersol family and more severe punishment to Sadie herself at that time. So Jake grows up in the Mast family all these years as their own boy along with his twin. It wasn't until Leah discovers that Lydiann is dating him, and to her horror, she must break these two apart. So Jake is sent away to the Ohio Amish community there to work as Jonas's apprentice. The Mast family and the Ebersol's are estranged anyhow as Fannie and Peter felt that Leah was the cause of Jonas's shunning, and they never forgave for that.
And poor Sadie. In order to get accepted fully again into the Amish community and her family, she has to go through a period of proving which means she must not wander far away from the house. Something happens that she does break the rules a little bit when she goes outside to far after her sister Mary Ruth. The bishop Bontrager catches her in the act, and very cruelly wants her out away from her family. She goes to live with the Nolts for awhile until the bishop is talked into bending a little by Gid, Hannah's husband. But this time is really her last chance.
Hannah and Gid are expecting their fourth baby and Hannah has postpartum depression very badly. Gid is very concerned about her until she finally sees the doctor.
Abe, the youngest in the Ebersol family who was Ida's last child when she died right after birth has a serious accident in the ice after a slip and fall. He has a very bad head injury from which he is knocked comatose and almost doesn't recover. Leah consults the scripture that her mother always read, that is against Amish rules. The prayer works, and Abe does wake up. But afterwords, it takes a long time for him to come back and recover fully.
Abram himself is beginning to mellow a lot in this book, and as you read, you'll find he is more relaxed and gentler in spirit. He and Aunt Lizzie actually fall in love and marry in the book. And surprisingly, he even likes Mary Ruth's husband Robert a Mennonite, welcoming them into his home whereas he would not have before at a certain time there.
The book has so much rich detail and is very very well written that it is hard to lay down once you start reading. Every book in this series has been great. I am sure that the last one, Revelation, will be just as good as the stories of the Amish Ebersol family comes to a climax there.
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3: Leah truly holds the Ebersol family together-great book!
In the Prodigal, the Ebersol family is growing up and away. Mary Ruth has turned Mennonite and married Robert, the doctor's son. She is expecting her first child.
Lydiann is up to her rumpspringhe years already, and has met up with Jake, who unbeknownst to both of them are aunt and nephew. It will be discovered by Leah that Sadie's so-called stillborn son is still very much alive. She makes that discovery by accident while working for the doctor. What she soon discovers is that the doctor had switched the babies around when Fannie Mast really did have a stillborn child, and one living boy. Then when Sadie's baby begins breathing suddenly, he gives Sadie's boy to Fannie, knowing it would avoid disgrace to the Ebersol family and more severe punishment to Sadie herself at that time. So Jake grows up in the Mast family all these years as their own boy along with his twin. It wasn't until Leah discovers that Lydiann is dating him, and to her horror, she must break these two apart. So Jake is sent away to the Ohio Amish community there to work as Jonas's apprentice. The Mast family and the Ebersol's are estranged anyhow as Fannie and Peter felt that Leah was the cause of Jonas's shunning, and they never forgave for that.
And poor Sadie. In order to get accepted fully again into the Amish community and her family, she has to go through a period of proving which means she must not wander far away from the house. Something happens that she does break the rules a little bit when she goes outside to far after her sister Mary Ruth. The bishop Bontrager catches her in the act, and very cruelly wants her out away from her family. She goes to live with the Nolts for awhile until the bishop is talked into bending a little by Gid, Hannah's husband. But this time is really her last chance.
Hannah and Gid are expecting their fourth baby and Hannah has postpartum depression very badly. Gid is very concerned about her until she finally sees the doctor.
Abe, the youngest in the Ebersol family who was Ida's last child when she died right after birth has a serious accident in the ice after a slip and fall. He has a very bad head injury from which he is knocked comatose and almost doesn't recover. Leah consults the scripture that her mother always read, that is against Amish rules. The prayer works, and Abe does wake up. But afterwords, it takes a long time for him to come back and recover fully.
Abram himself is beginning to mellow a lot in this book, and as you read, you'll find he is more relaxed and gentler in spirit. He and Aunt Lizzie actually fall in love and marry in the book. And surprisingly, he even likes Mary Ruth's husband Robert a Mennonite, welcoming them into his home whereas he would not have before at a certain time there.
The book has so much rich detail and is very very well written that it is hard to lay down once you start reading. Every book in this series has been great. I am sure that the last one, Revelation, will be just as good as the stories of the Amish Ebersol family comes to a climax there.
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4: The Prodigal
This was an excellent read. I couldn't stop until I had read all 5 books in the Abram's Daughters series.
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5: The Prodigal
This series is an excellent one! I would recommend it to everyone who enjoys stories about the Amish culture.
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