Crazy Quilt: Pieces of a Mennonite Life

With bare-knuckled honesty and humor, this memoir follows a young woman's search for a way out of her despair. Leaving her husband and their lives in New York City, Yoder moves to the countryside, where she collects stories from her aging Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite grandparents. With her marriage hanging by a thread, she faces her demons to make peace with a heritage she has felt at odds with. Yoder's account of that year is one of the first Mennonite memoirs of its kind.

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