(May 20, 2011) My friend, author Saloma Miller Furlong, will be in town this coming week for four book signings. She will discuss her memoir, "Why I Left the Amish," which debuted in January, at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 22, at Whippanong Library in Whippany, at 7 p.m. Monday, May 23, at Chester Township Public Library in Chester, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, at Warren Township Library in Warren, and at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, at Caldwell Public Library in Caldwell.
The book already has garnered national attention. Saloma and her husband, David, have been interviewed for PBS-TV's "American Experience" for a show to air next spring and by NPR-Radio for a new program to launch this year. PBS film crews recently spent 12 hours at their home in Sunderland, Mass.
Saloma tells the story of her early years growing up in a dysfunctional Amish family in Burton, Ohio. Her intellectual curiosity and longing for a more settled life led her to clandestinely leave her Amish community and go to Vermont, a place she had admired in magazine pictures. I had met Saloma during a visit to my native state of Ohio so my New Jersey home turned out to be one of the pit stops on her journey some 30 years ago.
In Vermont, she met David, they eventually married, moved to Massachusetts and now have two grown sons.
Despite only an eighth-grade education as mandated by the Amish, Saloma went on to graduate with honors from Smith College and garner a respectable position at Amherst College. Now she and David are concentrating on writing the second book in the series of three planned volumes. Following the first book's moving tale of her leaving the Amish, it will tell their love story in New England.
Read more about Saloma in Recorder Community Newspapers this week in the Echoes-Sentinel, Hanover Eagle and The Progress and at her website SalomaFurlong.com. Copies of her book, "Why I Left the Amish," will be available at the library book signings.
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