{"product_id":"thin-places-essays-from-in-between-paperback","title":"Thin Places: Essays from in Between - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJordan Kisner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eChicago Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMs. \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine March pick \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America's search for meaning \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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 .\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner's work. Her celebrated essay \"Thin Places\" (\u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntellectually curious and emotionally engaging, the essays in \u003ci\u003eThin Places\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJordan Kisner\u003c\/b\u003e's writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e GQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Guardian, The American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \u003ci\u003ePop-Up Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePitchfork\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize and was selected for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays 2016. \u003c\/i\u003eThe author of\u003ci\u003e Thin Places: Essays from In Between\u003c\/i\u003e, she teaches creative writing at Columbia Univer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 13, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768862245152,"sku":"9781250785909","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a17bfdb809ff94c4b78f040683dd9857.webp?v=1780339148","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/thin-places-essays-from-in-between-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}