![]() ![]() Wagler is still the general manager of a building supply company in Lancaster County, Pa. These are no breezy lessons about ex-Amish life or an author’s second proof of literary genius. It’s not that Wagler’s journey gets easier. That is where Broken Roads: Returning to My Amish Father picks up. It left readers with Ira back in Daviess County, “tired and done” as he now admits, a 27-year-old with adventures and grief worth many more decades. Despite the peace in his leaving, the book felt bitter at times. He wrestled with, rejected and forced himself to embrace the Amish culture until, by the end of his first bestselling memoir, Growing Up Amish, he left for good. It is in that context of Amish ambition, moral certainties and generational burden that Ira grew up. Family Life magazine, a mixture of opinion, morality and practical advice deeply influential to the Old Order Amish since 1968, was his brainchild. One of them was David Wagler, Christian’s grandson and Ira’s father. Discontent, sometimes, often with the rest of the Amish world. the shameful stain of his suicide would haunt his seed forever,” his great-grandson, Ira Wagler, writes. ![]()
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