Books by Susie

Plain English

When Susie Fisher left the Amish church at age 20, she realized that being shunned was just the beginning and that culture shock was an equal-opportunity wench that impacted every aspect of her new life.

How could she make the leap from schooling that had been cut off at age 14 to a college education? How could she cope with Corporate America, where she found conformity that felt eerily like what she had left behind? Could she survive the romantic entanglements that were the result of her unsophisticated choices? Worst of all, how could she have known that the very churches she had so looked forward to attending would be rife with wolves in sheep's clothing?

The freedom to choose one's own path sounds glorious, but as Susie describes, there are pitfalls, and laughter, aplenty…

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The Last Medici Heiress: A Novel By Susie Fisher

High in Italy’s Apennine Mountains, a Mary-Magdalene-hating Mother Superior is taking her role as the “Wife of God” too far. She abducts Emma, the infant daughter of a teenage girl, and gives the child to two unsuspecting American parents to raise, while their biological daughter is presented for adoption to an Italian couple who ache for a daughter of their own.

Thirty years later, Emma gets a job in Washington, DC where she meets Chad, a former Secret Service agent who considers himself to be damaged goods. Emma feels incapable of a healthy relationship either, due to her sheltered upbringing as part of an Amish sect, but the two draw closer as they're tangled in a dangerous web of deception and hypocrisy, spun by the Mother Superior and her cabal of nuns selling unwed mothers’ infant children.

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Reviews of Plain English

  • "A very gifted writer. An autobiography about one woman's journey from an Amish girlhood to a full and interesting life in the "English" world with what can only be described as adventures, some solemn, some madcap, in between. Heart touching, thought provoking and funny. The writer is a marvelous storyteller. Could hardly wait to get back to it whenever I had to put it down. Would be interested in anything else this author might publish."

    - Katrina Mount

  • "Plain English tells the true story of a young girl's coming of age while at the same time, launching herself into a world so foreign and frightening, she could be said to have been exposed, for the first time, to sunlight. Not that her previous experience growing up in an Amish community was especially dark; it was just so completely different and apart from the world she would discover, on her own, with her own insistence on authenticity. With prose that is trenchant, sometimes lyrical, sometimes ironic and wildly funny, Fisher tells a tale true to the book's title, in plain English, that every young woman in the process of becoming should read."

    - Robert Bausch

  • "A poignant, searingly honest account of growing up as a child of Amish parents. Fisher stays true to herself and pays a high cost. Her approachable writing style welcomed the reader to her slice of human experience."

    - Almond Joy