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Mary-Ann Kirkby
Mary-Ann Kirkby spent the first ten years of her life in a Hutterite Colony in Manitoba, Canada. In 1969 her parents did the unthinkable. They uprooted their 7 children and left the only life they had ever known, thrusting them into a society they did not understand and which did not understand... show more

Mary-Ann Kirkby spent the first ten years of her life in a Hutterite Colony in Manitoba, Canada. In 1969 her parents did the unthinkable. They uprooted their 7 children and left the only life they had ever known, thrusting them into a society they did not understand and which did not understand them. Mary-Ann's transition into popular culture is both heartbreaking and hilarious. An award-winning television journalist, Mary-Ann learned the fine art of storytelling at the knees of her gifted Hutterite teachers. She lives in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
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Flicker Reads
Flicker Reads rated it 11 years ago
I feel that everyone has a responsibility to educate themselves about different cultures - particularly those they commonly encounter in the area they live. For me as a Montanan, that means Native American cultures and Hutterites. Tonight I did a bit of that, reading I Am Hutterite by Mary-Ann Kirkb...
Get Lost in the Stacks
Get Lost in the Stacks rated it 12 years ago
What a fascinating book! Ms. Kirkby gives firsthand insight into a closed society. I knew very little about Hutterite life/culture except that they were an Anabaptist group similar to that of Amish and Mennonites. The only reasons I didn't give it five stars is that a)the writing was a little confus...
K.
K. rated it 12 years ago
I feel like the subtitle to this book is very misleading - this was a book about her childhood as Hutterite (and a little about attempting to live as the "English" do), not necessarily reclaiming her heritage. I suppose an argument could be made that writing this book WAS reclaiming it in some way, ...
cczarneckikernus
cczarneckikernus rated it 15 years ago
Really places you in the middle of Manitoba :)
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