The Believer Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle

Sarah Krasnostein

eBook - 2022

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Best Book of the Month at The Philadelphia Inquirer "Deeply beautiful, and never simple." —James Gleick, author of Time Travel: A History An unforgettable tour of the human condition that explores our universal need for belief to help us make sense of life, death, and everything in between. 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... more