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

· Bolinda · Narrated by Jennifer Vuletic
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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, these six profiles 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. Vivid, unconventional, entertaining, and full of wonder, The Believer interweaves these stories with compassion and empathy, culminating in an unforgettable tour of the human condition that cuts to the core of who we are as people, and what we’re doing on this earth.
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 Krasnost...

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Sarah Krasnostein is a writer and a lawyer with a doctorate in criminal law. A fourth generation American and a third generation Australian, she has lived and worked in both countries. Sarah’s narrative non-fiction is inspired by the invisible and marginalised worlds hinted at in the many criminal cases she has read over the past fifteen years. She lives in Melbourne and spends part of the year working in New York City. The Trauma Cleaner (Text Publishing / St Martin’s Press) is her first book. The Trauma Cleaner won the General Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2018 Australian Book Industry Award, and the Non-Fiction award and the Victorian Prize for Literature at the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. It won the Non-Fiction award at the 2019 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

Jennifer Vuletic is an Australian actress, singer and NIDA graduate from the class of 1984. She has enjoyed a varied career travelling all over Australia and the world, and has toured internationally with the hit show Mamma Mia!, playing the role of Tanya. She also performed in Menopause: The Musical, The Women of Troy and Jerry Springer: The Opera. She has recorded audiobooks for more than 24 years and has won numerous awards for her narrations, including the Trish Trinick Award for Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.

Sarah Krasnostein is a writer and a lawyer with a doctorate in criminal law. A fourth generation American and a third generation Australian, she has lived and worked in both countries. Sarah’s narrative non-fiction is inspired by the invisible and marginalised worlds hinted at in the many crimina...

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