Thin Places: Essays from In Between

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In this provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America’s search for meaning.A Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Lit Hub | Chicago Review | Ms. Magazine March PickA Lambda Literary Most Anticipated BookWhen Jordan Kisner was a child, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. She was, she writes, “just naturally reverent,” a fact that didn’t change when she—much to her own confusion—lost her faith as a teenager. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone, she did what anyone would do: “You go about the great American work of assigning yourself to other gods: yoga, talk radio, neoatheism, CrossFit, cleanses, football, the academy, the American Dream, Beyoncé.”A curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner’s work. Her celebrated essay “Thin Places” (Best American Essays 2016), about an experimental neurosurgery developed to treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, asks how putting the neural touchpoint of the soul on a pacemaker may collide science and psychology with philosophical questions about illness, the limits of the self, and spiritual transformation. How should she understand the appearance of her own obsessive-compulsive disorder at the very age she lost her faith?Intellectually curious and emotionally engaging, the essays in Thin Places manage to be both intimate and expansive, illuminating an unusual facet of American life, as well as how it reverberates with the author’s past and present preoccupations.“An unsettling and an endlessly curious read.” —Sarah Neilson, Electric Literature
Copyright:
2020

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Book Size:
274 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780374719388
Related ISBNs:
9780374274641
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyrighted By:
Jordan Kisner
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
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