What Mennonite Girls Are Good for by Sears, Jennifer

What Mennonite Girls Are Good for

A Debutiful Best Debut Short Story Collection of 2025In these eleven stories, a Mennonite minister's daughter moves...
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Author: Jennifer Sears
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Language: English
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What Mennonite Girls Are Good for by Sears, Jennifer

What Mennonite Girls Are Good for

$22.80

What Mennonite Girls Are Good for

$22.80
Author: Jennifer Sears
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A Debutiful Best Debut Short Story Collection of 2025

In these eleven stories, a Mennonite minister's daughter moves from a youthful, exuberant understanding of her family's faith toward religious doubt. Stumbling comically at times, Ruthie navigates life with and without the rules in which she's been raised. Always physical, often sexual, Ruthie's search for personal truth leads her from missionary outposts in Paraguay and Brazil to Mennonite towns in northern Indiana and central Kansas, a vandalized Native American site, women's healthcare clinics, and lingerie shops on the secular, melancholy East Coast. Ultimately, these stories consider how faith and identity intertwine, the cost of abandoning one's cultural heritage, and the complicated longing for return.



Author: Jennifer Sears
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 11/25/2025
Pages: 166
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.60w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781685970499


Review Citation(s):
Foreword 10/17/2025

About the Author
Jennifer Sears is associate professor of English at New York City College of Technology/City University of New York. Her writing appears in The Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Witness, Guernica, Ninth Letter, Fence, North American Review, and elsewhere.

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