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Review �Engaging.... [Ptacin] is on a quest to understand the peculiar nature of belief, the power of faith � pure, unquestioning and even unreasoning � to shape the way we see the world around us.... This is a place and a story rooted in the very human hope that life is more than a handful of years on a lonely planet. And that if we believe hard enough we may find proof of that, shining in the shadows, just beyond our reach.� - Deborah Blum, New York Times Book Review�Who doesn�t like a good ghost story? And in Camp Etna, the 143-year-old Spiritualist summer retreat located in the Maine hinterland just west of Bangor, author Mira Ptacin has found a whopping good one.... Ms. Ptacin�s depiction of Camp Etna�s residents?a �quirky underworld of fringe characters� and �their truth�?is both nonjudgmental and, pardon the pun, dead-on.� - Marc M. Arkin, Wall Street Journal�A deft account.... Ptacin nimbly traces the movement from the early days ? when Spiritualism offered women (often via mediumship) a public voice and sense of authority ? to its heyday as a ghostly carnival, into the public backlash at the hands of skeptics like Harry Houdini, to the New Age of crystal healing and the even newer age of high-tech ghost hunting.� - Genevieve Valentine, NPR.org�Best to go into this book open-minded. Leave a crack open for wonder � or belief � to slip through.� - Elena Nicolau, Refinery29�Enchanting.... Ptacin locates the roots of Spiritualism and traces the rise and decline of this female-dominated world that challenged institutions of the 19th-century patriarchy, offered comforting connection with the dead, and supported both abolition and suffrage. Blending history and her firsthand experience, Ptacin summons the spirits of this rich past and conveys the emotional needs it has satisfied over the years.� - National Book Review�A fascinating look at the history and cultural influence of Camp Etna, the 143-year-old Spiritualist community in Maine.... Ptacin, who is receptive to the spiritual experiences and stories of the community, delivers her narrative evenhandedly and with genuine curiosity. This is an eye-opening and informative peek into a little-known but influential community.� - Publishers Weekly [starred review]�With mediums, rocking healing, tables, divining, ghost hunting, and faith healing in the mix, Ptacin�s history of the Spiritualist religion in America will entertain practitioners and naysayers alike.... Ptacin�s writing is educational, entertaining, and well-researched. Readers interested in Spiritualism as a contemporary religion as well as the people who are currently involved with programs, services and educational opportunities at Camp Etna will find this of particular interest.� - Joyce McIntosh, Booklist�The Maine-based author immersed herself in the community, and her reportage reflects equal amounts of diligent journalism and wide-eyed fascination.... Both thrilling and unsettling.... In appropriately affable and accessible prose, the author describes what separates spiritualists from more common American religious traditions.... An eye-opening, consistently fascinating, and engrossing profile of the modern spiritualist movement.� - Kirkus Reviews�Writing about her time spent in the company of the mediums of Camp Etna during its 141st summer in operation, Ptacin reflects on spiritualism's place in an increasingly secular culture, the changes and controversies in the camp's management, and the nature of faith itself. But this is as much a meditation on healing as a history of a spiritualist camp. With great empathy and insight, Ptacin shows how spiritualist practices have aided the healing process in the lives of its practitioners, followers, and in Ptacin herself. A colorful, quirky, and ultimately moving look at a misunderstood faith and the iron-willed women who continue to sustain it.� - Library Journal�The In-Betweens is a truly fascinating history of a little-known American community of Spiritualists. I�d never heard of Camp Etna before reading this book, and I can�t imagine how I�d missed it. This is a story of a deeply female, fiercely autonomous, open-hearted and searching group of spiritual seekers, whose ranks have refused for well over a century to comply with any conventional ideas about religion, power, and women. Ptacin approaches her subjects with a mind that is both open and enthusiastic, without ever losing her keen reporter�s edge. It�s a brilliant work, and a fabulous read.� - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things and Eat, Pray, Love Read more About the Author The author of the acclaimed memoir Poor Your Soul, Mira Ptacin has written for NPR, Guernica, New York, Tin House, and Vice, among other publications. She teaches memoir-writing to women at the Maine Correctional Center and lives on Peaks Island, Maine. Read more
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