Thin Places - Essays from In Between

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, Beyonc-

A curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner-s work. H