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From 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.\u003cbr\u003e Tinged with McCreesh's characteristic blend of humour and humanity, \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 tomotherhood. 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Through a combination of prolonged stays at artist residencies and short side-trips, they experienced six circumpolar countries: Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. This book contains Alison's original postcards, which she created daily, exploring not only the Idea of North, but also illustrating, both through sketches and words, how her family dealt with the uniquely northern issues that they encountered in their circumpolar adventure. Alison's astute and often hilarious insights give an intimate glance into the trials and tribulations of travelling, parenting, working and living in the North. 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Barely five minutes from the downtown core, wedged between million dollar houses, you find little shacks where people exist without running water and use honey buckets for toilets. When Alison McCreesh moved from Quebec to Yellowknife she quickly fell in love with the quirky ways in which it seemed possible to live up North. 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Combining gag humour and individually moving comics McCreesh gives an insiders perspective over seven years. There's a fair amount of talk about death, as well as love and music and art, there's heartbreak about family friends moving away, there's some talk of gender, and there are plenty of are those general existential questions that kids ponder so well. More than that though, there's something deeper that comes from these comics spanning so many years. The kids are simultaneously changing AND remaining themselves, as their personalities develop and become more defined. The family dynamics evolve. They lurch around like the exhausted millennial parents that they are, navigating the simultaneous intense love and extreme annoyance that comes with living with small kids. A good mix of fuzzies, feelings, and laugh-out-loud humour, all of which confirm that these years are indeed short - and very long.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53113440993553,"sku":"NGR9781772621211","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53482930897169,"sku":"NLS9781772621211","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53502648811793,"sku":"NIN9781772621211","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781772621211.jpg?v=1770679832"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-alison-mccreesh.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}