![]() It’s that value proposition that creates the overarching pull of the book, whose essays are as entertaining as they are eye-opening. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize and was selected for The Best American Essays. The prose throughout is by turns lyric and clear, meditative and reportorial-a combination that suits the equal importance she puts on search and on meaning itself. Jordan Kisner's writing has appeared in n+1, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, GQ, The Guardian, The American Scholar, California Sunday, The New Yorker, The New Republic, New York magazine, Pop-Up Magazine, and Pitchfork, among other publications. may constitute a failure of moral imagination, but it absolutely fails to imagine the way the living and the dead remain connected, no matter how the living feel about it,” Kisner writes, reflecting on the role of coroners. ![]() ![]() Those moments stand out especially when Kisner deconstructs attitudes toward the body: “Americans’ unwillingness to prioritize how we deal with the dead. Her essays-about medical examiners, young evangelicals, and a border-town debutante ball, among other topics-are sharpest when Kisner explores distinctions of inside and outside. With the comforting presence of an open-minded, deeply curious narrator, Kisner attempts to come to grips with some of the stubborn mental habits of modern Americans: an inability to accept death, a penchant for piousness, and a damaging insistence on whiteness as the norm. ![]() society in a neatly poised, sympathetic, and refreshingly unpreachy collection of 13 essays. Debut author Kisner explores the religious, emotional, and cultural underpinnings of contemporary U.S. ![]()
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