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When a severe allergic illness dictated that she grow all her own food, Mary Swander found herself living in a former one-room Iowa schoolhouse in the midst of the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi.
Out of This World is a simple but profound memoir, shaped by the course of a farmer's year, in which Swander celebrates her time among the Amish people, explores what it means to be a lone woman homesteader at the end of the twentieth century, and ponders the quiet spirituality born of a life on the land.
Rich in down-to-earth humor, deft narrative, and a deep love of the land and its people, Out of This World is also the history of Iowa settlers and of their land, the Great Plains.
Examining her connection with her Amish neighbors and a larger human community, Swander explores the complex relationship between self-sufficiency and the ability to abandon the self to a larger goal, between the sweep of Iowa's history and the shape of its present, between human life and the natural landscape upon which it depends.
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Amish, Homes and haunts, Social life and customs, Health, Healing, Case studies, Alternative medicine, Iowa, social life and customsPeople
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Out of This World: A Journey of Healing
2008, University of Iowa Press
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Out of This World: A Journey of Healing (Bur Oak Book)
April 15, 2008, University Of Iowa Press
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Out of This World: A Journey of Healing
July 1, 1996, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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0140241701 9780140241709
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"A BRIGHT RED BOW and harness bells tied on the horse, Donna, Stu, and I set out in their cart to greet our neighbors and bring in the New Year."
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