"Rumspringa "is Tom Shachtman's celebrated look at a littleknown
Amish coming-of-age ritual, the "rumspringa--"the period of
"running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. During
this time, Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of
their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, revealing
clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties. By allowing such
broad freedoms, their parents hope they will learn enough to help
them make the most important decision of their lives--whether to be
baptized as Christians, join the church, and forever give up
worldly ways, or to remain in the world.
In this searching book, Shachtman draws on his skills as a
documentarian to capture young people on the cusp of a fateful
decision, and to give us "one of the most absorbing books ever
written about the Plain People" ("Publishers Weekly").
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