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A review by alj24
Thin Places: Essays from in Between by Jordan Kisner
5.0
Of the many compliments I want to pay to this book, the highest is that it made me slow down. As much as I loved Jordan Kisner's writing and thinking, I couldn't gorge myself on it. Instead, I dipped my toes into her essays every few days, leaving always with something new to think about.
Kisner writes essays on places where boundaries seem to slip: Pop-up evangelical churches on beaches, public art institution, aggressively American debutante balls at border towns, the world of people who deal with dead bodies. What I loved about these essays is that they straddled the line of working out external and internal knowledge. There's always a point in the essay where Kisner inserts herself, unwaveringly honest, and wrestles with the complicated ideas she's seeing in the world.
I feel a kindred spirit with her, and I'm not sure why. The particulars of our identities and our lives are so different, but these essays felt like coming home in a way.
Without a doubt the best collection of essays I've read. I will be back for you, book.
Kisner writes essays on places where boundaries seem to slip: Pop-up evangelical churches on beaches, public art institution, aggressively American debutante balls at border towns, the world of people who deal with dead bodies. What I loved about these essays is that they straddled the line of working out external and internal knowledge. There's always a point in the essay where Kisner inserts herself, unwaveringly honest, and wrestles with the complicated ideas she's seeing in the world.
I feel a kindred spirit with her, and I'm not sure why. The particulars of our identities and our lives are so different, but these essays felt like coming home in a way.
Without a doubt the best collection of essays I've read. I will be back for you, book.