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Joe Mackallis author ofThe 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 journalRiver Teethand has written for NPR'sMorning Edition, theWashington Post, and theCleveland Plain Dealer, among other publications. He lives near Cleveland, Ohio.
Prose as graceful as it is unsentimental . . . Mackall doesn't sensationalize, romanticize, or condescend. --Brigid Brett, @lt;i@gt;Los Angeles Times@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; 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, @lt;i@gt;Cleveland Magazine@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Wonderful and enlightening . . . a loving portrait, warts and all, of an often misunderstood people. --@lt;i@gt;Booklist@lt;/i@gt;, starred review@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; An engaging personal memoir . . . neither an expose 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. --@lt;i@gt;Publishers Weekly@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; In simple but elegant prose that matches the values of his subject, Joe Mackall takes us deep into the Ami
