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Prose as graceful as it is unsentimental . . . Mackall doesn't sensationalize, romanticize, or condescend. —Brigid Brett, Los Angeles Times"Mackall does the job beautifully, painting an intimate portrait of the family that leaves the reader feeling humbled by the common thread that's woven into all of us." —Sarah English, Cleveland Magazine"Wonderful and enlightening . . . a loving portrait, warts and all, of an often misunderstood people."—Booklist, starred review"An engaging personal memoir . . . 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."—Publishers Weekly"In simple but elegant prose that matches the values of his subject, Joe Mackall takes us deep into the Amish community. He neither romanticizes nor condemns an alternate way of living, but provides stunning insight through the generosity and compassion of his own heart."—Chris Offutt, author of The Same River Twice and Kentucky Straight"Joe Mackall's Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish meets the biggest challenge of a book such as this by living up to his subtitle: Mackall is both outside and among in equal measure, and it's the most difficult terrain to occupy. Plain Secrets vibrates in that in-betweenness, in ways that only songs or poems usually can, and it does so in prose that's as clear as water. It’s built the way the Amish build their barns—everything here is plumb and level." —Diana Hume George, author of The Lonely Other: A Woman Watching America"Joe Mackall's patience, empathy, and dogged curiosity illuminate this fine, fascinating study of an elusive culture. Plain Secrets is a provocative, humbling, and soulful book."—Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of Lincoln’s Melancholy"Plain Secrets is a moving exploration of a little-known world and friendship across a cultural divide."—Boston GlobeOff the Shelf column"Mackall explores this paradox with rare honesty and insight . . . Another strength of the book is that while maintaining a personal narrative voice, Mackall folds in a succinct and engaging history of the Anabaptist religious tradition and the polity of the Amish church. This added context greatly enhances the more personal stories."—Boston Globe"Mackall's writing is an honest and refreshing change from the customary saccharin scribbling about the Noble Amish Man. Despite, or perhaps because of, Mackall's refusal to perch the Amish on a pedestal, he manages to convey a deep respect for the people."—Lancaster New Era"Mackall describes the details of family, farming and church life with sympathy, accuracy and good will… His particularistic description of one family is a welcome addition to what had often been a sociological literature." —Christian Century". . . he writes with a forthright precision."—Akron Beacon Journal"The book points to a difficult truth: A religious community is bound to be freed. Mackall explores this paradox with rare honesty and insight . . . [and] achieves what he promises."—Tom Montgomery-Fate, Boston Globe
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About the Author
Joe Mackall is author of The Last Street Before Cleveland and Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish. A professor of English and journalism at Ashland University, he is coeditor of the journal River Teeth and has written for NPR's Morning Edition, the Washington Post, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, among other publications. He lives near Cleveland, Ohio.
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Product details
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press; Reprint edition (June 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807010650
ISBN-13: 978-0807010655
Product Dimensions:
5.6 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
75 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#475,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I was disappointed by this book. It reads like a travelogue....one's ability to rely on the information and impressions related are therefore dependent on an accurate feel for the writer, which I couldn't ultimately obtain. How reliable is the narrator? He believes that African Americans comprise 1% of the population, when they are actually 13%, and that "everything is getting worse-murders, genocide, etc." However, statistically, this isn't so, but a common misperception likely created by our over - exposure to bad news.He seems fairly contemptuous of his readers, and seems to believe that we have confused Peter Weir's fine movie "Witness" with a documentary. He is indignant over "appropriation" of the Amish, but that is exactly what he proceeds to do.It is apparent that he likes and respects his neighbor, Samuel. Samuel, like most humans, is a complex person. He shoots one dog for not having a tail, but lovingly nurses another who suffers from a broken leg caused by a hit and run.Whether because they offer a glimpse into our shared agrarian past, or because they show a deliberate rejection of technological "advances" that have taken on an avalanche momentum that seems no longer helpful or under anyone's control, we find the Amish curious.But this isn't an illuminating book. Although one of the tenets of the anabaptist revolt was that church practices should be based solely on scripture, not on church tradition, the Amish have accumulated a huge unresponsive body of church tradition of their own, which seems deeply ironic. It is also quite obvious that Jesus was in rebellion at the legalistic Jewish religious tradition, which he believed made life more difficult than it needed to be, and functioned to waste man's time and energy, not to bring man closer to God.I would ordinarily have quit reading this after about 40 pages, but kept hoping that it would get better. It never did.
I have read and traveled pretty extensively among the Amish, but even so, Mackall's book shared insights that I had not heard before. These insights were mainly about the differences between the different sects of the Amish. When all is said and done though, once again, I am reminded how we fellow human beings are more alike, than different! We all have to have a healthy regard for human life in general and we would be a much better people!
Thanks to Joe Mackall for this book - it is virtually as good a book as I can imagine being written, for providing an honest look at Amish 'daily life'. Mackall manages to steer an admirably true course, avoiding the extremes of scandal-mongering sensationalism on the one hand, or fawning romanticism on the other.Mackall writes out of his own close friendship with an Amish family, the Shetlers, which formed out of Mackall's own act of kindness to the Shetler family. His friendship gives him access to Amish life, in a way that few 'outsiders' are ever granted. Mackall uses his access to give his readers fascinating insights into Amish ways of work, family, courtship, etc, as well as the tension inherent in their contacts with the 'outside world'.Some of the most fascinating, and simultaneously melancholy, chapters in the book relate to the Shetlers' young kinsman Jonas, and his bumpy journey out of Amish life, which serves to starkly highlight the contrasts between Amish and 'modern' ways of life. Such a simple thing as getting a Social Security number, so he can work, becomes maddeningly complex for Jonas, having grown up virtually without 'official' documentation. And the struggles of young would-be ex-Amish to make their way in a world which they are in no way prepared to comprehend, can be simultaneously comical and heartbreaking.As I made my way through the book, I found myself again and again wondering whether Joe Mackall's reflections on his experiences of the Amish, or my own reactions to what I was reading, might not be saying more about Joe Mackall, or myself, as 'moderns', than about the Amish themselves. By the very nature of their life, the Amish stand as a stark rejection, even a rebuke, of modern ways, and our own response to that rejection could tell us a lot about ourselves. Even Joe Mackall, honest and affectionate as he is toward his Amish neighbors, can't quite bring himself to wonder whether the Amish approach to gender roles might not have strengths or advantages that hadn't occurred to him. And I found myself lamenting what I took as Amish devaluing of education. Both of which amount to impositions of 'outside' perspectives on choices the Amish have made, for reasons of their own, regardless of what I, or Joe Mackall, might think about them.I truly appreciated the warm humanity of Mackall's presentation of Amish life. Because the Shetlers are his friends, he doesn't come to the Amish as to a group of exotic strangers. Rather, he is able to talk about his friends and neighbors as real, flesh-and-blood human beings, trying to make their own way through this world, and ultimately, to arrive in Heaven. Of course, their lives are fascinating for the ways they diverge from 'modern' American society; and, if we are attentive, they might possibly teach us things we hadn't anticipated.
I became interested in the Amish after reading a novel and looking deeper into their way of life. I found it very interesting how they live their lives through their rules of their church. To be that dedicated is what I admire about them as a people. The author did a great job in putting himself into learning about his subjects.
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