Phebe’s Home chronicles the life of a Mennonite woman from a pioneer farm colony in Tidewater, Virginia, whose determination to be a writer was inspired by a passion for words and a desire to understand the people and events around her. Phebe Kraus did not rebel against the conventional roles of womanhood in family or church, yet she insisted on life on her own terms, bringing wisdom and wit to the quest of finding her own special place in the world. (411pp. illus. Masthof Press, 2021.)