... generous and compassionate.

What’s most striking about Krasnostein’s dealings with, and portraits of, these people is her compassion.

Sarah Krasnostein brings her inquisitive nature and empathetic way with people to her new book.

This book is a superb achievement; Krasnostein is a masterful storyteller and describes her cast of characters in a rich and vibrant manner. You constantly have to remind yourself that you’re not actually in the room with her.

While Krasnostein spent a remarkable amount of time with each of her subjects, meeting with some over a period of years, we only spend a few pages at a time with them.

The Believer stretches...empathy and insight across the lives of multiple individuals.

The Believer shows how much can be achieved by listening to those whose entire view of the world is alien to your own. Krasnostein’s art is that she never places herself on the throne of judgment. She allows strangers to shed light on her own flickering experience of transcendence and the immaterial. She is tender with stories at which the righteous might scoff.

This would be a very different, and less compelling book, if Krasnostein feigned agnosticism about who is more right then wrong, which she does not.

... [a] thoughtful meditation on humans’ desire for certainty, security, and solace.

Journalist Krasnostein...delivers an illuminating meditation on the nature of belief and the quest for meaning.