Degrees of Separation

<p><b><span>"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,</span><span> </span><i>Paying the Land</i></b></p><p><b>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.</b><br></p><p>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, <i>Degrees of Separation</i> offers an intimate and understated glimpse of the North as Alison experienced it. </p><p>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.</p><p><span>Tinged with McCreesh''s characteristic blend of humour and humanity, </span><i>Degrees of Separation</i> 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.</p><p></p><p></p>