The Believer: Encounters with love, death and faith
Text Publishing, $34.99 pb, 352 pp
Society
Common ground
A hybridised exploration of distance
by Naama Grey-Smith •
Subtitled ‘Encounters with love, death and faith’, Sarah Krasnostein’s The Believer takes on big themes. In this work of creative non-fiction that combines memoir, journalism, and philosophical inquiry, Krasnostein details her meetings with people whose beliefs she finds unfathomable but whom she is driven to understand. Her own guiding faith on this journey is that ‘we are united in the emotions that drive us into the beliefs that separate us’.
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