I am Hutterite - Softcover

Kirkby, Mary-Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978340515 ISBN 13: 9780978340513

Publisher: Polka Dot Press, 2007

Synopsis

This Canadian published book is in very good almost unused condition.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary-Ann Kirkby spent her childhood in a Hutterite colony in Canada. Without warning her parents uprooted their 7 children to begin a new life in the outside world. Mary-Ann's difficult transition into popular culture led her to an award-winning career in television as a gifted storyteller.

From Publishers Weekly:

This sweeping prairie memoir, self-published in Canada in 2007, rapidly garnered both commercial and literary applause. Recounting the author's journey from a Hutterite girlhood to an adolescence of desperate striving to catch up with fashions of the time, the book manages to pack information about Hutterite life into a coming-of-age narrative without slowing it down. Kirkby's family moved away from their Manitoba colony when she was 10 years old, after what she calls a near idyllic childhood in the cradle of a communal society. Once a reader commits the many characters and their relationships to each other to memory, the book becomes as riveting and well-paced as a novel. Kirkby captures the complex cadences of Hutterite life—the bawdy humor and knack for storytelling that stands beside austere ritual, the poverty of personal possession and freedom that exists beside the security of community life—with pitch-perfect writing. She also manages to avoid either vilifying or romanticizing a culture that has been subjected to both. Readers will find themselves hoping that Kirkby follows the popular trend in memoir writing: producing a sequel. (May)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Polka Dot Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0978340515
• ISBN 13: 9780978340513
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 208