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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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        Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
        Published 30 December 2022
        ISBN-13 9780299340407
        978-0299340407
        ISBN-10 0299340406
        Also in:
        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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