Thin Places
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Thin Places

Essays from In Between

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Thin Places

Essays from In Between

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A Los Angeles Times Bestseller 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 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, BeyoncĂ©." 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.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2020
ISBN
9780374719388
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Essays
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Epigraphs
  5. Attunement
  6. Thin Places
  7. Jesus Raves
  8. The Big Empty
  9. Good Karma
  10. Habitus
  11. Stitching
  12. Phone Calls from the Apocalypse
  13. Shakers
  14. A Theory of Immortality
  15. The Other City
  16. Soon This Space Will Be Too Small
  17. Backward Miracle
  18. Notes and Works Consulted
  19. Notes
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Praise for Thin Places
  22. A Note About the Author
  23. Newsletter Sign-up
  24. Contents
  25. Copyright