Plain Anna: an Amish memoir

Plain Anna: an Amish memoir

Being plain and experiencing pain did not define me, but it did shape me.

Anna Schwartz knew fear; it first grabbed her in its clutches on a church pew, then tightened its grip through a raging fire. B…

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