Leaving Lancaster: A NovelCan a splintered Amish family reconcile? More than anything else, thirty something Holly Fisher longs for family. Growing up in Seattle without a dad or grandparents, she wonders what it would be like to have a heritage, a place of belonging. Holly is furious when her mother, Esther, reveals a long kept secret: Hollys grandmother and uncles are still alive and begging Esther to return. And Holly is shocked when she learns that the family shes never