What Mennonite Girls Are Good for by Sears, Jennifer

What Mennonite Girls Are Good for (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781685970499)

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What Mennonite Girls Are Good for by Sears, Jennifer

What Mennonite Girls Are Good for

$19.00
What Mennonite Girls Are Good for by Sears, Jennifer

What Mennonite Girls Are Good for

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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In these eleven stories, a Mennonite minister's daughter moves from a youthful, exuberant understanding of her family's faith toward religious doubt. Stumbling comically at times, Ruthie navigates life with and without the rules in which she's been raised. Always physical, often sexual, Ruthie's search for personal truth leads her from missionary outposts in Paraguay and Brazil to Mennonite towns in northern Indiana and central Kansas, a vandalized Native American site, women's healthcare clinics, and lingerie shops on the secular, melancholy East Coast. Ultimately, these stories consider how faith and identity intertwine, the cost of abandoning one's cultural heritage, and the complicated longing for return.

Author: Jennifer Sears
ISBN-10: 1685970494
ISBN-13: 9781685970499
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Published: 11/25/2025
Pages: 166
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
By Jennifer Sears
By Jennifer Sears
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Jennifer Sears is associate professor of English at New York City College of Technology/City University of New York. Her writing appears in The Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Witness, Guernica, Ninth Letter, Fence, North American Review, and elsewhere.

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