Reviews for Footprints: A History of the Place We Call Palisades Park

The average rating for Footprints: A History of the Place We Call Palisades Park based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-10-20 00:00:00 Brian Cruce Born Amish serves its purpose pretty well. It provides insight into Ruth Irene Garrett, her Amish experience and her choice to leave the Amish. She is pretty good about qualifying her descriptions of Amish life by saying that it is done differently in different communities. First-person accounts like hers offer helpful perspective on popular representations of Amish life like the "bonnet-ripper" novels as well as more scholarly works about the Amish.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-16 00:00:00 Kazuhito Nakamura I wasn't sure what to expect, as this was a book my grandmother recommended. What I found was a novel that mixes memoir with an anthropological study of a very old traditional culture that I am not familiar with. I enjoyed the story, short though it was, and found the cultural revelations quite fascinating. This was a very interesting book, though to me not as compelling as I would have liked.