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Dora Dueck’s second novel This Hidden Thing was recently published by CMU [Canadian Mennonite University] Press in Winnipeg. “The young woman standing outside the prosperous Winnipeg house that day in 1927 knew she must have work. Her family depended on it. But Maria Klassen had no idea that her new life as a domestic would mark her for the rest of her days. This Hidden Thing reminds us how dangerous and powerful secrets can be. This lyrical and moving novel offers one woman’s compelling, ordinary, and surprising life.” The novel is grounded in Dora Dueck’s earlier research, including many interviews, into the experience of Mennonite immigrants to Manitoba in the 1920s, as well as in Frieda Esau Klippenstein’s oral history project with women who had served as domestics during that period, which is also the historical setting for This Hidden Thing. Dora Dueck’s first novel was Under the Still Standing Sun, and she was also co-editor of Northern Lights: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Writing in Canada. Her short story “Chopsticks” was published in the “New Fiction” issue of the CMW journal in January 2010.

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