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**A __Los Angeles Times__ Bestseller** **A __Lit Hub__ | __Chicago Review__ | __Ms.__ Magazine March pick** **A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America's search for meaning**When 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 psychol

Who reads Thin Places : Essays from in Between?

Author

Jordan Kisner

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374719388

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Religion

Rating

4.5 / 5 (72 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14