About the author: Mary-ann Kirkby is an award-winning journalist and the bestselling author of I Am Hutterite. Her memoir chronicled her childhood experiences growing up on a Hutterite colony in western Canada and the difficult aftermath of leaving her community to forge a new life in the modern world.

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