A review by margaretpinard
Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home by Kerri ní Dochartaigh

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This book felt like a distillation of a LOT of learning, pain, reflection, and courage. I appreciated hearing the author's view of and experiences during the Troubles, how she found solace in the liminal environments available to her, and then fought through the defensiveness her traumas had forced up on her in later life.  It wiggled a bit in pacing, and I wish there had been more diving into the language of the thin places, the kinship felt with past inhabitants, but that's just my expectations burdening the narrative. Heartfelt memoir.