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Book SynopsisA 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
