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Cliff Roles interviews Lucinda Streiker-Schmidt

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“A Separate God Journal of an Amish Girl” Book Signings:

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Saturday, November 7th from 10AM-2PM Starbucks Bee Ridge and Beneva
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Sunday, November 8th from 1-3PM @ Circle Books, 478 John Ringling Blvd.
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Wednesday, November 11th from 10AM-12N @ University & Tuttle
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Thursday, November 12th from 5:30PM-7:30PM @ US 41 & Worrington Avenue
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Lucinda Streiker-Schmidt left the close-knit Amish community of rural Indiana to start a new life. Streiker-Schmidt, who married and had two children while in the Amish faith, grew up with questions about the outside world, and after a tumultuous, abusive marriage, divorced her Amish husband and began a new life with her children. After putting herself through nursing school and establishing her career, she began working on her novel, which is based on the journals she kept as a young girl.

A Separate God is a fictional account of her childhood and marriage, but it is based on factual events. The novel reveals that all is not well within Amish communities; the outer appearance of a peaceful, hardworking society belies that very real dysfunction in some Amish families. Streiker-Schmidt found within her Amish husband’s family household a saga of physical abuse, incest and frightening repression.

While Streiker-Schmidt condemns the unhealthy environment she found herself in, she also has much love for the community of her youth. Her novel has received much attention and praise from those within the Amish community as well as those from the outside, including former members of the faith.

She currently resides in Elkhart, Indiana, where she maintains close relationships with her family, treasuring time spent with them and her friends, both secular and Amish.

More info at aseparategod.com

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