#   NYT Book Review: All That’s Unseen by Emilee Hackney '20  

 





September 08, 2026

 

 

Emilee Hackney’s achingly intelligent memoir, “All That’s Unseen,” opens with a scene at Deliverance Christian Church in Tazewell County, in rural southwest Virginia, where she was born and raised. Five-year-old Emilee stands beside her mother, watching congregants flood the altar and fall to their knees, weeping and moaning and speaking in tongues. Emilee feels a “great, urgent energy” pressing down on her shoulders. Her knees buckle and she sinks to the ground, held there by a “mysterious and all-consuming force.”  
  
Read more [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/books/review/all-thats-unseen-emilee-hackney.html).



 

 

 



 

 

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