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65/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Jordan Kisner
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
March 3, 2020
An award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America's search for meaning.
What The Reviewers Say
... the fluidity of Kisner’s essays in her debut book, Thin Places, is arguably the most striking thing about this collection. Kisner seems to effortlessly move from research to personal memoir to social commentary—often within a single essay. The topics in Thin Places are wide-ranging, but it’s also as if each essay is stretching its fingers into the next, so there’s a nice congruity throughout the book.
... fiercely intelligent and consistently edifying.
[The] 'in between state' is the common denominator of this collection, the theme on which the 13 essays are a variation. Certainty, the book suggests, is an illusion. Real life exists in the gaps.
As public definitions of identity relax, are challenged, and at least not in-hiding as a matter of routine, a look at this matrix of fluidity and perception is welcome.
