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When the Roll Is Called A Pyonder: Tales From A Mennonite Childhood
is a unique memoir of a childhood on a Mennonite family farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the 1970s. The story unfolds through a collection of short vignettes which I tell not as a narrator, but from the viewpoint and in the voice of the child I was. The book does not directly address or evaluate Mennonite life or beliefs; rather, it draws and describes them by being set in them as in the center of the universe.
Talking to Myself 
[…] me to take on raising a small clutch of ducklings (I drowned a few, but not as many as a certain Mennonite memoirist from Pennsylvania) and experience the sensation of a sweet duckling growing into a bullying […]
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