Plain Secrets
"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

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Contact Information

Write to Joe Mackall at: jmackall (at) ashland.edu

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