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Also by Sarah Krasnostein:

The Believer, March 2022
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The Believer
Sarah Krasnostein

Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

Tin House Books
March 2022
On Sale: March 1, 2022
360 pages
ISBN: 1953534007
EAN: 9781953534002
Kindle: B09C2NHJ3T
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Philosphy | Non-Fiction Religion

For Sarah Krasnostein it begins with a Mennonite choir performing on a subway platform, a fleeting moment of witness that sets her on a fascinating journey to discover why people need to believe in absolute truths and what happens when their beliefs crash into her own. Some of the people Krasnostein interviews believe in things many people do not: ghosts, UFOs, the literal creation of the universe in six days. Some believe in things most people would like to: dying with dignity and autonomy; facing up to our transgressions with truthfulness; living with integrity and compassion. 

By turns devastating and uplifting, and captured in snapshot-vivid detail, these six profiles of a death doula, a geologist who believes the world is six thousand years old, a lecturer in neurobiology who spends his weekends ghost hunting, the fiancée of a disappeared pilot and UFO enthusiasts, a woman incarcerated for killing her husband after suffering years of domestic violence, and Mennonite families in New York will leave you convinced that the most ordinary-seeming people are often the most remarkable and that deep and abiding commonalities can be found within the greatest differences. 

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