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What's the deal with the romance novels about Amish people?

Why Amish people, in particular? They're like this entire subgenre of (mostly) Christian romance that seems to involve Amish people. And there's STACKS of it.

It's just so baffling. Like, what is the appeal? Getting to churn your own butter?

I think there's a real appeal to that outlook on life, that aesthetic - the idea of self-sufficiency and handmade and small-scale things. There are a lot of different appeals to it, actually.

I think Amish culture is kind of a strange place to go to satisfy that appeal, but I guess it would be pretty weird if people were writing romance novels based on Wendell Berry's oeuvre.

Actually, now that I think about it, there's also this Christian-mom subculture of handmade "cottage"-looking stuff and baking and "the good old days." You're right, it probably taps into that.

And you can also link it, on the other side, to the ideas of DIY and stuff like farmer's markets and WOOF and shit. It's a popular idea in the culture, for many different reasons, not all of which are bad, many of which I share myself.

...what's WOOF?

WWOOF, sorry.

Working on organic farms, basically.

ahhhh thank you that makes sense

I imagine it hits a few buttons for Christian romance.

1) Romanticized view of simpler times, i.e. "the good old days"
2) traditional gender roles and values
3) no premarital shenanigans and romances that lead to marriage and babies

It's not my thing, but... /shrug

Yeah, I don't get it, either. My grandma loves them and there seems to be ten million of them on the shelf at the library.

That's funny, that subgenre had recently come to my attention as well! We get catalogs from Edward R Hamilton Booksellers (aka BOOKCRACK!, sorrynotsorry for that link) and they've got books on just about everything, as they deal in cheap remaindered books. Well I was flipping though the catalog (past all the military history, arts and crafts, mystery novels...) and my eye alighted on a column with around 5 thumbnail images all that appeared to depict women in little Amish caps. There were around 15 romances all set in Amish or Mennonite communities. And every time there's a new catalog, there's more different ones! So odd!

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