{"product_id":"degrees-of-separation","title":"Degrees Of Separation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The tension between free-spirited off-grid living and prosaic adult responsibility runs through Alison McCreesh’s tender and loving ode to the people and landscapes of the Far North.\" —Joe Sacco,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaying the Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt age 21, Alison hitchhiked to the Yukon and spent the summer living in a tent. 10 years later, in the deep of winter and seven months pregnant, she returns. Degrees of Separation is about what happened in between.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of a decade, artist Alison McCreesh lived, worked, and travelled north of the 60th parallel. Through a combination of autobiographical stories, drawings and sketches, \u003ci\u003eDegrees of Separation\u003c\/i\u003e offers an intimate and understated glimpse of the North as Alison experienced it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom frigid days spent killing time while stranded in the High Arctic, to the challenges of raising a baby in a small shack with no running water, it is one young woman''s personal experience of both passing through and of setting down roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTinged with McCreesh''s characteristic blend of humour and humanity, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDegrees of Separation\u003c\/i\u003e is about the north and its vastness and its diversity. While the backdrop may seem foreign to many, this collection is also a universal exploration of those transformative years from young-adulthood to motherhood. It''s a graphic novel navigating themes of connection and disconnect, between the north and the south, but also between different norths and between our different selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57268542079358,"sku":"NW9781772620931","price":18.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781772620931.jpg?v=1778536358","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/degrees-of-separation","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}