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Plain Secrets : An Outsider Among the Amish by Joe Mackall is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

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From Publishers Weekly In an engaging personal memoir, Mackall, an Ohio-based writer and professor of English, describes the close-knit relationship he has cultivated over more than a decade with a neighboring Amish family. This is neither an exposé nor an outsider's fanciful romanticization of the Amish. By focusing on the loves and losses of one large Amish clan, Mackall breathes life into a complex group often idealized or caricatured. He refers, for example, not to "the Amish" writ large, but instead to "the Swartzentruber Amish I know," describing in some detail the tremendous differences between the Swartzentrubers, by far the most traditional sect, and the Old Order, New Order, Beachy and other Amish groups. The Swartzentrubers not only eschew electricity but also padded or upholstered chairs, souped-up buggies, indoor plumbing, the tradition of rumspringa (a running-around period for some Amish teens) and—perhaps most important for this narrative—contact with "the English." Mackall's is the first book to venture behind-the-scenes of this most conservative Amish group. At times Mackall is critical of the Swartzentruber way of life (such as when an eight-year-old girl dies i

Who reads Plain Secrets : An Outsider Among the Amish?

Author

Joe Mackall

Publisher

Beacon Press Publishers Group UK

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807010655

Category

self-help

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Memoir, Christian

Rating

3.79 / 5 (546 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14