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Conundrum Book Store | All Books | Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60
Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60
Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60
Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60
Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60
Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60
Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60
Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60
Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60
Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60

Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60

Alison McCreesh

$30.00 USD

“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, Paying the Land

At 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.

Over 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, Degrees of Separation offers an intimate and understated glimpse of the North as Alison experienced it. 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.

Tinged with McCreesh’s characteristic blend of humour and humanity, Degrees of Separation 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.

“Fans of Linda Barry’s Ernie Pook’s Comeek, Craig Thompson’s Blankets, Kate Beaton’s Ducks and Jeff Lemire’s Essex County series are going to feel right at home with Alison McCreesh’s Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60. What a treasure. Mahsi cho, Alison, for sharing all of this exquisiteness with us. You’re always up to magic!”

—Richard Van Camp, A Blanket of Butterflies

About the Author

Over the past fifteen years, Alison McCreesh has extensively travelled around the Arctic and sub-Arctic and contemporary day-to-day life in the North is a theme that carries through her creative work. Alison currently lives in Yellowknife where she creates comics and illustrations surrounded by her two dogs and three small children. Alison’s past books include the award-winning graphic novel Ramshackle: A Yellowknife Story, as well as the travelogue Norths, Two Suitcases and a Stroller around the Circumpolar World.

Publication Details

ISBN 9781772620931
8 x 10 inches, 390 pages
black & white, trade paperback
April 2024

SKU: 9781772620931 Category: All Books Tags: Graphic Memoir, Graphic Novels

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