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"At last, a liberating antidote to the either/or thinking of the atheist/believer debate. Hazleton makes an impassioned and persuasive case for the insights - and joys - to be gained from a stance of not-knowing."
--Reza Aslan, author of Zealot and No God but God
"One of the most-anticipated books of spring 2016."
--Publishers Weekly.
"Personably persuasive ... Informed by science, philosophy, literature, history, travel, and more, Hazleton's manifesto makes the suspension of conviction as attractive as any theist or atheist testament."
--Booklist
"It's a fraught enterprise to take on the big questions--God, meaning, mortality, existence--but Hazleton has done it here with remarkable aplomb, and in a singular voice devoid of pretension. Her manifesto is, for me, a celebration--a welcome infusion of joy in an arena preponderantly inhabited by dogmatists."
--David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars
"What does it mean to select 'spiritual but not religious' in a survey? Is it a rejection of belief, or does it signify the respondent's need for greater depth than a blanket statement? Hazleton brilliantly addresses this conundrum in her spirited manifesto on agnosticism, and demonstrates that agnosticism is a thoughtful, non-limiting approach to the mysteries of life."
-- Library Journal
"Here, with clever elucidation, are artful essays that celebrate the wonder of the unknown... Hazleton does not deny possibilities; she denies only assured and implacable dogma."
--Kirkus Reviews
"To be agnostic is not to sidestep the question of belief, for Hazleton, or to commit to a wishy-washy moral framework. It is instead to have enough backbone to stand firm in the liminality of uncertainty."
--Publishers Weekly, starred review.
"As a rabbi whose search for religious meaning is constantly renewed by doubt, I loved Lesley Hazleton's book. It is vibrant, challenging, funny and profound, and wise in its embrace of paradox, mystery and science."
-- Rabbi Rachel Cowan, Founding Director of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality