Mary Alice Hostetter grew up the tenth of twelve children in a Mennonite farm family. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Gettysburg Review, HuffPost Personal, and elsewhere. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
1. Prologue
2. The Girl at the Market
3. Part One
4. Hot Lard
5. Class Pictures
6. Once Upon a Time
7. Making Soup
8. Yearnings
9. Wrestling with Peace
10. Part Two
11. Simple Pleasure
12. Billy Graham’s Necktie
13. Cleansed at Crystal Flow
14. On Foot-Washing Sunday
15. One of the Plain Girls
16. Considering Lilies of the Field
17. It’s Only Fair
18. Leaving Home
19. Part Three
20. Making It to the Main Line
21. Among the Right People
22. Where Do I Fit?
Zeit und Raum
23. The Coming-Out Letters
24. Epilogue
25. Elegy to the Farm Where I Grew Up
26. Acknowledgments
