Thin Places: Essays From In Between

"Jordan Kisner’s essays range from circling her curiosity around a neurosurgical procedure for obsessive compulsive disorder, to reporting on a debutante ball in a Texas border town where Mexican American girls dress as Martha Washington, to shadowing a medical examiner performing autopsies in Cleveland. What unites them all is an exploration of the liminal – states of in-between, or the titular “thin places,” where potential and tension swell. Kisner’s curiosity is contagious, and as she glides smoothly between cultural commentary, reportage and personal probing, she illuminates how flimsy boundaries are when we look at them hard enough."