Thin Places: Essays from In Between By : Jordan Kisner
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A Lit Hub | Chicago Review | Ms. Magazine March pick A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated BookIn this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America?s search for meaningWhen 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, Beyonc?.?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
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