“Jordan Kisner ventures into the operating room where a surgeon inserts an electrode into a patient’s brain. Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams & The Recovering Always, and thrillingly, they look inward and outward with exacting grace." Like tattoos, their natural habitat is that strange borderland where our skin meets the world-where we confront our edges, or everything we can’t keep out. "Jordan Kisner’s essays are like intricate tattoos: etched with a sharp and exacting blade of intellect, but made of flesh richly drawn in their details comprised of equal parts pleasure and pain. She shows us, through order and diction rather than on-the-nose thematic ligatures, the links and leaps and divots among the book’s 13 essays. Kisner follows the associational logic of a poet. “With humor and razor-sharp insight, Jordan Kisner’s Thin Places: Essays From in Between captures the visceral, palpable feeling of loss… gracefully guide us through our own emptiness in search of fullness” And with unique empathy and intelligence, she ponders how American communities and she herself might begin to question their orthodoxies and experience a new kind of vulnerability and faith.” “Kisner exposes the rules human beings have enforced on one other in order to cope with their fear, mortality, and permeability. “… an unsettling and an endlessly curious read.” Kisner has effectively announced her arrival to the pantheon of American nonfiction writers.” “Kisner reliably hints at where her essays are going (we learn to take note of her titles, for example), but she leaves us pleasingly startled when we arrive at her final destinations. “Thoughtful, engaging, and informative essays from a writer to watch.” This debut collection marks Kisner as a voice to listen to.” She’s like a physician, taking the pulse of society, and sharing the results matter-of-factly, without judgment.
“Kisner’s writing is unflinching, written with a curious and open mind and heart. She’s one of the few contemporary writers who knows how to bridge spiritual and temporal worlds, but who’s also able to alter and expand our understanding of the metaphors we live by through immersive research and writing.” “With this collection, Jordan takes her place among the next generation of American Transcendentalists, and those true essayists for whom nothing human is too strange to write about, even the wish to be something more than individual and more than human. pulling the reader along on her journey to excavate the intimate from the observed.” “Kisner displays an impressive range of narrative modes in this book, bouncing nimbly between gravity (in her ethnography and her bird’s-eye philosophizing) and comic relief….
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