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Jennifer Sears - What Mennonite Girls Are Good For, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

What Mennonite Girls Are Good For

Av Jennifer Sears

Del i serien Iowa Short Fiction Award

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A Debutiful Best Debut Short Story Collection of 2025In 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.
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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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“What a magnificent book. So scary, so sad, so strange, so brutal, so true, so expertly written, so brave, so forlornly Mennonite, so fiercely beautiful in so many ways. Ruthie is a creature who will live forever inside me. Is this a book of stories, a novel, neither of these, both of these? Who cares? It’s art. High, heart-thumping, unforgettable art. I was shaken by this book, but I was also made more wholly human.”—Tim O’Brien, author, The Things They Carried

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