The Thin Place
2006
First Published
3.31
Average Rating
291
Number of Pages
In a thin place, according to legend, the membrane separating this world from the spirit world is almost nonexistent. The small New England town of Varennes is such a place, and Kathryn Davis transports us there - revealing a surprising pageant of life as, in the course of one summer, Varennes' tranquillity is shattered by the arrival of a threatening outsider, worldly and otherworldly forces come into play, and a young local girl finds her miraculous gift for resurrecting the dead tested by the conflict between logic and wish.
Avg Rating
3.31
Number of Ratings
1,456
5 STARS
17%
4 STARS
30%
3 STARS
28%
2 STARS
16%
1 STARS
8%
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Author
Kathryn Davis
Author · 10 books
Kathryn Davis is an award-winning American novelist. Davis has taught at Skidmore College, and is now senior fiction writer in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a recipient of the Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 2006. Davis lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with her husband, the novelist and essayist Eric Zencey.
