Plain Secrets An Outsider among the Amish

Name: Plain Secrets An Outsider among the Amish
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ISBN: 9780807010655

ISBN-10: 0807010650

ISBN-13: 9780807010655

Edition: 2008

Authors: Joe Mackall

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A journalist writes about his surprising friendship with an Amish family trying to live a simple life in a complex world Plain Secrets tells the story of Joe Mackall's Swartzentruber Amish neighbors, the Shetlers, using their lives to paint a nuanced portrait of this most traditional Amish sect. "Mackall does the job beautifully, painting an intimate portrait of the family that leaves the reader feeling humbled by the common thread that's woven into all of us." --Sarah English, Cleveland Magazine "Prose as graceful as it is unsentimental . . . Mackall doesn't sensationalize, romanticize, or condescend." --Brigid Brett, Los Angeles Times "The book points to a difficult truth: A religious…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 6/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Author's Note


Introduction



Pop Cans and Doomed Pigs



The Leaving



Remembering Sarah



"You be careful out among them English"



The Midnight Table



Underground Railroad



The Lot Falls



The Amish FBI



Time and Space



Deadly Sacred



Another Leaving



The World Inside, and Out


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes