Fans of Amish Fiction discussion

This month we are reading Northkill by Bob Hostetler. It's the winner of ForeWord Review's 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Award for historical fiction.

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In 1738 Jakob Hochstetler and his family immigrate to America, seeking sanctuary from religious persecution in Europe and the freedom to live and worship according to their nonresistant Anabaptist beliefs. Along with other members of their church, they settle in the Northkill Amish Mennonite community at the base of the Blue Mountains, on the frontier between white and Indian territory. They build a home near Northkill Creek, for which their community is named.

For eighteen years, the community lives at peace with its Indian neighbors. Then while the French and Indian War rages, the Hochstetlers’ way of life is brutally shattered. On the night of September 19-20, 1757, their home is attacked by a war party of Delaware and Shawnee Indians allied with the French. Facing almost certain death with his wife and children, Jakob makes a wrenching decision that will tear apart his family and change all of their lives forever.

Northkill is closely based on an inspiring true story well-known among the Amish and Mennonites. It has been documented in many publications and in contemporary accounts preserved in the Pennsylvania State Archives and in private collections.

I have finished reading this book. It was a very good book and those poor people the anguish and torture that they endured. The ending ended abruptly and I am sure that it continues to the next book but still disappointing. I definitely enjoyed reading this book.

I will say that this is the first book in a l-o-n-g time that has given me a nightmare! The last one was due to Stephen King

Just finished and I agree with Dede -- an abrupt ending. Kinda left me with my mouth hanging open.