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Tara Isabella Burton has followed a female hermit into the remote Caucasus, gotten love amulets from Turkish Islamic shamans, and held signs with the street preachers of Las Vegas.

Her work on religion, culture, and place can be found at National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, The Economist's 1843, Aeon, The BBC, The Atlantic, The American Interest, Salon, The New Statesman, The Telegraph, and more. Her fiction has appeared at The New Yorker's Daily Shouts, Great Jones Street, Tor.com, PANK, Shimmer, and other places. She has received The Spectator's 2012 Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and a 2016 Lowell Thomas Award.

Her first novel, Social Creature, is forthcoming from Doubleday (US) and Bloomsbury/Raven (UK) in June 2018, a ...more

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	Social Creature 3.37 avg rating — 12,830 ratings — published 2018 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World Cannot Give 3.43 avg rating — 2,658 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World 3.88 avg rating — 1,497 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here in Avalon 3.56 avg rating — 967 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians 3.85 avg rating — 382 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Destroyer 3.84 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children Will Listen (A Short Story) 3.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tbilisi Travel Guide (Unanchor) - Weekend Break: Crown Jewel of the Caucasus really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“There are things it is better for a person not to know. The day and the manner of your own death, that’s one, or whether or not you’re going to fuck your mother and kill your father. What people say behind your back. The names somebody you love has called somebody else. There’s a reason people are able to function, in this world, as social creatures, and a good part of that reason is that there are a lot of questions intelligent people don’t ask.”
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message 3: by Esdaile

May 07, 2017 04:07AM

Tara, I think you are one of my oldest friends in Goodreads (old as friend of course not old in age). I was interested to see that you gave 5 stars to Péguy's Le Mytère de la la charité de Jeanne d'arc. Why is the title given in English in goodreads? Is there even an English version? I have just bought it via ebay and I think I shall be very impressed having read a couple of pages and seeing it approaches the dilemma of the Christian who knows Satan is in each and everyone of us (exception- the Redeemer?). I was frustrated that you gave it 5 stars but no comment! I should like to know what you liked about it so much and I presume you read French to have given it five stars? Greetings from occupied Germany
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message 2: by Tara

Jul 27, 2011 10:22AM

Javid wrote: "You read terribly quickly, Isabella..."

haha, Javid! I can't read slower, even if I try. Was doing 3 books a day when alone in Tbilisi; now that I'm home with family it's slowed to just the one...

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message 1: by Javid

Jul 21, 2011 03:30AM

You read terribly quickly, Isabella...

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