Sandra Birdsell walked so that Miriam Toews could run. Both Mennonite writers from rural Manitoba — Birdsell from the generation before Toews — they chronicled the lives of girls and women from that funny diasporic religious group to which I too belong, a group that has taken on giant proportions in our national literature.
I discovered Birdsell’s first…
Casey Plett
Casey Plett is the author of On Community and other books. She teaches at Ohio University.