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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 shemuch to her own confusionlost 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 cel

Thin Places

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 13 April 2021
      ISBN-13 9781250785909
      978-1250785909
      ISBN-10 1250785901
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 shemuch to her own confusionlost 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 cel

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