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A review by the_old_gray_cat
The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle by Sarah Krasnostein
4.0
An engrossing book about a number of unusual people, including a death doula, a dying woman, a number of Mennonite missionaries in a rough part of New York City, UFO believers, and psychic investigators. I enjoyed reading this very much.
What stops this from being a 5 star read is that the author sprinkles in a little of her own personal history without filling in all the blanks -- I found myself paging back through the whole book trying to figure out the rest of one particular story only to realize she had referred to a trauma as if we the readers knew about it, when it had never been mentioned before. Also, the organization of the book, jumping from subject to subject, introducing new people and returning to some but not all of the subjects, got irritating as there really weren't unifying themes which justified this.
What stops this from being a 5 star read is that the author sprinkles in a little of her own personal history without filling in all the blanks -- I found myself paging back through the whole book trying to figure out the rest of one particular story only to realize she had referred to a trauma as if we the readers knew about it, when it had never been mentioned before. Also, the organization of the book, jumping from subject to subject, introducing new people and returning to some but not all of the subjects, got irritating as there really weren't unifying themes which justified this.