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A new novel published by Omar Eby, Mill Creek, is set in Lancaster County in the 1950s.

"Mill Creek tells the story of the age-old struggle of an adolescent's attempts to understand himself and his world. Peter Martin, the brainy, shy, farm-boy narrator, pious beyond his years, fights a private war: whether to remain with his strict farm people or whether to embrace his best friend's anarchic approach to Mennonite life. . . An almost amorous friendship, the threat of the draft (Korean War), the lure of art, a pregnancy and a tragic drowning aid Peter to make compromising moves to pay tribute to his friend Arthur. In the end, Peter resolves to find a way out of what he has come to understand as the religious oppression of his own community." Order a copy from Orders@Xlibris.com

Read a review at

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/268859

Omar Eby is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Boy and the Man: Three Years in Somalia, and A Long, Dry Season.