A Plain & Fancy Christmas: A Novel
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Raised in a Pennsylvania Amish community, young mother Rachel Yoder has led a simple life within her close-knit family. Widowed three years ago, she has moved back in with her parents, attempting to raise her daughter, Katie, without further emotional upheaval. Meanwhile, four hours and a whole world away in New York City, Ellie Lawrence is laser-focused on a high-powered public relations career, with too little time for her family, her friends, or even her boyfriend.
Then one fateful day, these two very different women receive shocking news of a mistake made three decades earlier and long kept hidden: Shortly after their births, the two were accidentally switched in the hospital. Shaken to the core by this momentous news, Rachel and Ellie are plunged into an exploration of who they are and where they really belong. While Ellie is eager to learn more about her Amish family and their life in the countryside, Rachel cannot help but feel jealous as she watches the only mother she has ever known bonding so easily with her natural daughter. But Rachel also knows that her own biological family is out there, and with Katie at her side she heads for Manhattan, where she establishes a connection with the raucous, spirited Lawrences.
As Ellie and Rachel make their way through unfamiliar landscapes, they face life-altering challenges and grapple with a crucial question: Will their old conventions and desires give way to new customs and yearnings? With the Christmas holidays fast approaching, it takes the love of two families for Rachel and Ellie to discover their own paths to fulfillment and happiness.
Then one fateful day, these two very different women receive shocking news of a mistake made three decades earlier and long kept hidden: Shortly after their births, the two were accidentally switched in the hospital. Shaken to the core by this momentous news, Rachel and Ellie are plunged into an exploration of who they are and where they really belong. While Ellie is eager to learn more about her Amish family and their life in the countryside, Rachel cannot help but feel jealous as she watches the only mother she has ever known bonding so easily with her natural daughter. But Rachel also knows that her own biological family is out there, and with Katie at her side she heads for Manhattan, where she establishes a connection with the raucous, spirited Lawrences.
As Ellie and Rachel make their way through unfamiliar landscapes, they face life-altering challenges and grapple with a crucial question: Will their old conventions and desires give way to new customs and yearnings? With the Christmas holidays fast approaching, it takes the love of two families for Rachel and Ellie to discover their own paths to fulfillment and happiness.
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Cynthia Keller. (2011). A Plain & Fancy Christmas: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cynthia Keller. 2011. A Plain & Fancy Christmas: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.
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Then one fateful day, these two very different women receive shocking news of a mistake made three decades earlier and long kept hidden: Shortly after their births, the two were accidentally switched in the hospital. Shaken to the core by this momentous news, Rachel and Ellie are plunged into an exploration of who they are and where they really belong. While Ellie is eager to learn more about her Amish family and their life in the countryside, Rachel cannot help but feel jealous as she watches the only mother she has ever known bonding so easily with her natural daughter. But Rachel also knows that her own biological family is out there, and with Katie at her side she heads for Manhattan, where she establishes a connection with the raucous, spirited Lawrences.
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October 17, 2011
Keller's latest begins with alternating chapters that depict two women living in completely different worlds. Rachel Yoder, a widowed young mother, lives on her family's farm in a Pennsylvania Amish community. Ellie Lawrence, a single career-woman, lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Though the two women have never heard of each other, their lives intersect when they receive letters from a nurse who was at the hospital when they were both born. After harboring this dreadful secret for three decades, the nurse reveals that Rachel and Ellie were switched at birth, and they must struggle with questions of identity and family. Unfortunately, Keller (An Amish Christmas) fails to write past Rachel and Ellie's superficial and predictable reactions, or the flat responses of their respective families. The only glimmer of thoughtful expression comes from Rachel: "It wasn't as if they were being asked to take over the other person's life and give up their own." Readers will be disappointed by the contrived moments of conflict that accompany these one-dimensional characters.
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Manhattan businesswoman Ellie Lawrence and Amish widow Rachel Yoder learn that they were accidentally switched at birth. The tight Pennsylvania community where Ellie's Amish birth family lives introduces her to a stability and sense of belonging she has never known. An extended stay in New York to allow Rachel and her daughter to get to know their new family proves less rewarding. A pleasant addition to a growing subgenre from the author of An Amish Christmas.
Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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