{"product_id":"9781771965774","title":"On Community","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction • Finalist for the 2024 Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature • One of \u003cem\u003eCBC Books\u003c\/em\u003e' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the Fall • A \u003cem\u003eTyee\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2023 • A \u003cem\u003eCBC Books\u003c\/em\u003e Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 • A \u003cem\u003eHamilton Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2023 • An \u003cem\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/em\u003e Best Queer Book of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWe are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex as the beliefs we share, or as intentional as those we call family. In an episodic personal essay, Casey Plett draws on a range of firsthand experiences to start a conversation about the larger implications of community as a word, an idea, and a symbol. With each thread a cumulative definition of community, and what it has come to mean to Plett, emerges.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLooking at phenomena from transgender literature, to Mennonite history, to hacker houses of Silicon Valley, and the rise of nationalism in North America, Plett delves into the thorny intractability of community's boons and faults. Deeply personal, authoritative in its illuminations, \u003cem\u003eOn Community \u003c\/em\u003eis an essential contribution to the larger cultural discourse that asks how, and to what socio-political ends, we form bonds with one another.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casey Plett (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":44108918849716,"sku":"9781771965774","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0628\/5072\/8116\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a6c43b58-d39f-437f-b31b-bd5d2b6bfa37.jpg?v=1766166177","url":"https:\/\/runningthegoat.com\/products\/9781771965774","provider":"Running the Goat Books \u0026 Broadsides","version":"1.0","type":"link"}