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Tells the story of Mary Alice Hostetter’s journey to define an authentic self amid a rigid religious upbringing in a Mennonite farm family. This quietly powerful memoir of longing and acceptance casts a humanizing eye on a little-understood American religious tradition and a woman’s striving to grow within and beyond it.

Table of Contents
  • Prologue
  • The Girl at the Market
  • Part One
  • Hot Lard
  • Class Pictures
  • Once Upon a Time
  • Making Soup
  • Yearnings
  • Wrestling with Peace
  • Part Two
  • Simple Pleasure
  • Billy Graham’s Necktie
  • Cleansed at Crystal Flow
  • On Foot-Washing Sunday
  • One of the Plain Girls
  • Considering Lilies of the Field
  • It’s Only Fair
  • Leaving Home
  • Part Three
  • Making It to the Main Line
  • Among the Right People
  • Where Do I Fit?
    Zeit und Raum
  • The Coming-Out Letters
  • Epilogue
  • Elegy to the Farm Where I Grew Up
  • Acknowledgments

    Plain A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood

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    A Hardback by Mary Alice Hostetter

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      Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
      Publication Date: 30/12/2022
      ISBN13: 9780299340407, 978-0299340407
      ISBN10: 0299340406
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      Autobiography: general Protestantism and Protestant Churches

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tells the story of Mary Alice Hostetter’s journey to define an authentic self amid a rigid religious upbringing in a Mennonite farm family. This quietly powerful memoir of longing and acceptance casts a humanizing eye on a little-understood American religious tradition and a woman’s striving to grow within and beyond it.

      Table of Contents
      • Prologue
      • The Girl at the Market
      • Part One
      • Hot Lard
      • Class Pictures
      • Once Upon a Time
      • Making Soup
      • Yearnings
      • Wrestling with Peace
      • Part Two
      • Simple Pleasure
      • Billy Graham’s Necktie
      • Cleansed at Crystal Flow
      • On Foot-Washing Sunday
      • One of the Plain Girls
      • Considering Lilies of the Field
      • It’s Only Fair
      • Leaving Home
      • Part Three
      • Making It to the Main Line
      • Among the Right People
      • Where Do I Fit?
        Zeit und Raum
      • The Coming-Out Letters
      • Epilogue
      • Elegy to the Farm Where I Grew Up
      • Acknowledgments

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