Separate from the World (Ohio Amish Mystery Series #6) » (1)

Retired college professor P.L. Gaus lives with his wife, Madonna, in Wooster, Ohio.

Separate from the World is a story of a rift between two Amish factions, one that favors the use of medicine and that participates in a college study of genetic traits particular to the Amish community, and the other that rejects any outside influence. Once more, P. L. Gaus takes us inside a separate culture and, in a manner both gentle and grim, highlights the complex relationship of the Amish and the “English” as they live inside or outside each other’s orbits.

The New York Times - Marilyn Stasio

Although Gaus's characterizations of the outsiders the Amish call "English" are stiff and simplistic, he has great admiration for the Amish themselves, writing with quiet gravity about aspects of their lives rarely shown to strangers.