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In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America's search for meaningWhen 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.
About the Author
Jordan Kisner writes essays, features, and reviews for n 1, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Believer, and others. Her first book, THIN PLACES, will be published on March 3, 2020, by Farrar Straus & Giroux. Other hats: teacher of creative writing at Columbia University; creative team at Tables of Contents; mentor-editor for The Op-Ed Project; California transplant.
