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Publisher
Biblioasis
ISBN-10
1771965770
ISBN-13
9781771965774
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2330265677
Product Key Features
Book Title
On Community
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Essays
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Book Series
Field Notes Ser.
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Trade Paperback
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0.5 in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
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4.4 in
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Trade
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2023-553426
Reviews
Praise for On Community "Don't expect to walk away from On Community with easy answers. Plett refuses to explore the titular concept 'blithely' or to simplify it 'to the point of untruth.' Splitting it into practical and theoretical definitions is 'too simple.' Instead, she weaves together a nuanced narrative that unpacks the term's intricacies while maintaining its importance." --Literary Review of Canada "A tightly woven, academic and literary brain dump of concepts and notions, posits and prompts, with a flight of challenging questions." --The Miramichi Reader "Plett uses her firsthand experiences to eventually reach a cumulative definition of community and explore how we form bonds with one another." --CBC Books "Plett reflects on her Mennonite roots, trans literature, nationalism, Silicon Valley, and the idea of family, in this consideration of how and why we manage to live together at all." --Quill and Quire Praise for Casey Plett "Plett's trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I've always admired Plett's ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK), Praise for On Community "On Community--a book-length personal essay--delves into the different ways we imagine our communities and the people who form them." --Globe and Mail "Don't expect to walk away from On Community with easy answers. Plett refuses to explore the titular concept 'blithely' or to simplify it 'to the point of untruth.' Splitting it into practical and theoretical definitions is 'too simple.' Instead, she weaves together a nuanced narrative that unpacks the term's intricacies while maintaining its importance." --Literary Review of Canada "A tightly woven, academic and literary brain dump of concepts and notions, posits and prompts, with a flight of challenging questions." --The Miramichi Reader "Plett uses her firsthand experiences to eventually reach a cumulative definition of community and explore how we form bonds with one another." --CBC Books "Plett ruminates on the importance of community in succinct, snappy prose." --Winnipeg Free Press "A spiral of thoughts and anecdotes organized around questions concerning what it means to be part of the queer and trans communities, On Community . . . is a heartfelt, funny, wistful read--just conceptually rigorous enough to provoke thought, but without difficult theory or jargon." --Kristina Rothstein, Geist "Amidst ... definitions and (re)interpretations of 'community,' Casey Plett truly embodies the nuances, spits on assumptions and holds space for the real, the ugly, the bittersweet and everything in between." --The Ex Puritan "With humour and verve, Plett cuts through the platitudes often associated with how we talk about community. She offers a welcome, incisive analysis of power and belonging that feels as lived-in as it is hopeful." --The Tyee "Plett's essay is a thoughtful, rich and engaging unpacking of the complexity behind simplistic ideas, and a clear-eyed consideration of what really is a universal human experience." --Pickle Me This "Plett reflects on her Mennonite roots, trans literature, nationalism, Silicon Valley, and the idea of family, in this consideration of how and why we manage to live together at all." --Quill and Quire Praise for Casey Plett "Plett's trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I've always admired Plett's ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK), Praise for On Community "Don't expect to walk away from On Community with easy answers. Plett refuses to explore the titular concept 'blithely' or to simplify it 'to the point of untruth.' Splitting it into practical and theoretical definitions is 'too simple.' Instead, she weaves together a nuanced narrative that unpacks the term's intricacies while maintaining its importance." --Literary Review of Canada "A tightly woven, academic and literary brain dump of concepts and notions, posits and prompts, with a flight of challenging questions." --The Miramichi Reader "Plett uses her firsthand experiences to eventually reach a cumulative definition of community and explore how we form bonds with one another." --CBC Books "Plett ruminates on the importance of community in succinct, snappy prose." --Winnipeg Free Press "With humour and verve, Plett cuts through the platitudes often associated with how we talk about community. She offers a welcome, incisive analysis of power and belonging that feels as lived-in as it is hopeful." --The Tyee "Plett's essay is a thoughtful, rich and engaging unpacking of the complexity behind simplistic ideas, and a clear-eyed consideration of what really is a universal human experience." --Pickle Me This "Plett reflects on her Mennonite roots, trans literature, nationalism, Silicon Valley, and the idea of family, in this consideration of how and why we manage to live together at all." --Quill and Quire Praise for Casey Plett "Plett's trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I've always admired Plett's ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK), Praise for On Community "On Community--a book-length personal essay--delves into the different ways we imagine our communities and the people who form them." --Globe and Mail "Don't expect to walk away from On Community with easy answers. Plett refuses to explore the titular concept 'blithely' or to simplify it 'to the point of untruth.' Splitting it into practical and theoretical definitions is 'too simple.' Instead, she weaves together a nuanced narrative that unpacks the term's intricacies while maintaining its importance." --Literary Review of Canada "A tightly woven, academic and literary brain dump of concepts and notions, posits and prompts, with a flight of challenging questions." --The Miramichi Reader "Plett uses her firsthand experiences to eventually reach a cumulative definition of community and explore how we form bonds with one another." --CBC Books "Plett ruminates on the importance of community in succinct, snappy prose." --Winnipeg Free Press "A spiral of thoughts and anecdotes organized around questions concerning what it means to be part of the queer and trans communities, On Community . . . is a heartfelt, funny, wistful read--just conceptually rigorous enough to provoke thought, but without difficult theory or jargon." --Kristina Rothstein, Geist "Amidst ... definitions and (re)interpretations of 'community,' Casey Plett truly embodies the nuances, spits on assumptions and holds space for the real, the ugly, the bittersweet and everything in between." --The Ex Puritan "With humour and verve, Plett cuts through the platitudes often associated with how we talk about community. She offers a welcome, incisive analysis of power and belonging that feels as lived-in as it is hopeful." --The Tyee "Equal parts opinionated and open-minded, On Community is an insightful, personal, provocative and urgent little 'pamphlet' that, I think, any member of the living human 'community' should get their hands on." --Scout Magazine "Plett's essay is a thoughtful, rich and engaging unpacking of the complexity behind simplistic ideas, and a clear-eyed consideration of what really is a universal human experience." --Pickle Me This "Plett reflects on her Mennonite roots, trans literature, nationalism, Silicon Valley, and the idea of family, in this consideration of how and why we manage to live together at all." --Quill and Quire Praise for Casey Plett "Plett's trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I've always admired Plett's ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK), Praise for On Community "Plett uses her firsthand experiences to eventually reach a cumulative definition of community and explore how we form bonds with one another." --CBC Books "Plett reflects on her Mennonite roots, trans literature, nationalism, Silicon Valley, and the idea of family, in this consideration of how and why we manage to live together at all." --Quill and Quire Praise for Casey Plett "Plett's trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I've always admired Plett's ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK), Praise for On Community "Don't expect to walk away from On Community with easy answers. Plett refuses to explore the titular concept 'blithely' or to simplify it 'to the point of untruth.' Splitting it into practical and theoretical definitions is 'too simple.' Instead, she weaves together a nuanced narrative that unpacks the term's intricacies while maintaining its importance." --Literary Review of Canada "A tightly woven, academic and literary brain dump of concepts and notions, posits and prompts, with a flight of challenging questions." --The Miramichi Reader "Plett uses her firsthand experiences to eventually reach a cumulative definition of community and explore how we form bonds with one another." --CBC Books "Plett ruminates on the importance of community in succinct, snappy prose." --Winnipeg Free Press "Plett's essay is a thoughtful, rich and engaging unpacking of the complexity behind simplistic ideas, and a clear-eyed consideration of what really is a universal human experience." --Pickle Me This "Plett reflects on her Mennonite roots, trans literature, nationalism, Silicon Valley, and the idea of family, in this consideration of how and why we manage to live together at all." --Quill and Quire Praise for Casey Plett "Plett's trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I've always admired Plett's ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK), Praise for On Community "Plett reflects on her Mennonite roots, trans literature, nationalism, Silicon Valley, and the idea of family, in this consideration of how and why we manage to live together at all." --Quill and Quire Praise for Casey Plett "Plett's trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I've always admired Plett's ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK), Praise for Casey Plett "Plett's trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I've always admired Plett's ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK), Praise for On Community "Don't expect to walk away from On Community with easy answers. Plett refuses to explore the titular concept 'blithely' or to simplify it 'to the point of untruth.' Splitting it into practical and theoretical definitions is 'too simple.' Instead, she weaves together a nuanced narrative that unpacks the term's intricacies while maintaining its importance." --Literary Review of Canada "Plett uses her firsthand experiences to eventually reach a cumulative definition of community and explore how we form bonds with one another." --CBC Books "Plett reflects on her Mennonite roots, trans literature, nationalism, Silicon Valley, and the idea of family, in this consideration of how and why we manage to live together at all." --Quill and Quire Praise for Casey Plett "Plett's trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I've always admired Plett's ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK), Praise for On Community "On Community--a book-length personal essay--delves into the different ways we imagine our communities and the people who form them." --Globe and Mail "Don't expect to walk away from On Community with easy answers. Plett refuses to explore the titular concept 'blithely' or to simplify it 'to the point of untruth.' Splitting it into practical and theoretical definitions is 'too simple.' Instead, she weaves together a nuanced narrative that unpacks the term's intricacies while maintaining its importance." --Literary Review of Canada "A tightly woven, academic and literary brain dump of concepts and notions, posits and prompts, with a flight of challenging questions." --The Miramichi Reader "Plett uses her firsthand experiences to eventually reach a cumulative definition of community and explore how we form bonds with one another." --CBC Books "Plett ruminates on the importance of community in succinct, snappy prose." --Winnipeg Free Press "With humour and verve, Plett cuts through the platitudes often associated with how we talk about community. She offers a welcome, incisive analysis of power and belonging that feels as lived-in as it is hopeful." --The Tyee "Plett's essay is a thoughtful, rich and engaging unpacking of the complexity behind simplistic ideas, and a clear-eyed consideration of what really is a universal human experience." --Pickle Me This "Plett reflects on her Mennonite roots, trans literature, nationalism, Silicon Valley, and the idea of family, in this consideration of how and why we manage to live together at all." --Quill and Quire Praise for Casey Plett "Plett's trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I've always admired Plett's ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK), Praise for On Community "Don't expect to walk away from On Community with easy answers. Plett refuses to explore the titular concept 'blithely' or to simplify it 'to the point of untruth.' Splitting it into practical and theoretical definitions is 'too simple.' Instead, she weaves together a nuanced narrative that unpacks the term's intricacies while maintaining its importance." --Literary Review of Canada "A tightly woven, academic and literary brain dump of concepts and notions, posits and prompts, with a flight of challenging questions." --The Miramichi Reader "Plett uses her firsthand experiences to eventually reach a cumulative definition of community and explore how we form bonds with one another." --CBC Books "Plett's essay is a thoughtful, rich and engaging unpacking of the complexity behind simplistic ideas, and a clear-eyed consideration of what really is a universal human experience." --Pickle Me This "Plett reflects on her Mennonite roots, trans literature, nationalism, Silicon Valley, and the idea of family, in this consideration of how and why we manage to live together at all." --Quill and Quire Praise for Casey Plett "Plett's trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I've always admired Plett's ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK), Praise for On Community "On Community--a book-length personal essay--delves into the different ways we imagine our communities and the people who form them." --Globe and Mail "Don't expect to walk away from On Community with easy answers. Plett refuses to explore the titular concept 'blithely' or to simplify it 'to the point of untruth.' Splitting it into practical and theoretical definitions is 'too simple.' Instead, she weaves together a nuanced narrative that unpacks the term's intricacies while maintaining its importance." --Literary Review of Canada "A tightly woven, academic and literary brain dump of concepts and notions, posits and prompts, with a flight of challenging questions." --The Miramichi Reader "Plett uses her firsthand experiences to eventually reach a cumulative definition of community and explore how we form bonds with one another." --CBC Books "Plett ruminates on the importance of community in succinct, snappy prose." --Winnipeg Free Press "Amidst ... definitions and (re)interpretations of 'community,' Casey Plett truly embodies the nuances, spits on assumptions and holds space for the real, the ugly, the bittersweet and everything in between." --The Ex Puritan "With humour and verve, Plett cuts through the platitudes often associated with how we talk about community. She offers a welcome, incisive analysis of power and belonging that feels as lived-in as it is hopeful." --The Tyee "Plett's essay is a thoughtful, rich and engaging unpacking of the complexity behind simplistic ideas, and a clear-eyed consideration of what really is a universal human experience." --Pickle Me This "Plett reflects on her Mennonite roots, trans literature, nationalism, Silicon Valley, and the idea of family, in this consideration of how and why we manage to live together at all." --Quill and Quire Praise for Casey Plett "Plett's trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I've always admired Plett's ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK), Praise for On Community "On Community--a book-length personal essay--delves into the different ways we imagine our communities and the people who form them." --Globe and Mail "Don''t expect to walk away from On Community with easy answers. Plett refuses to explore the titular concept ''blithely'' or to simplify it ''to the point of untruth.'' Splitting it into practical and theoretical definitions is ''too simple.'' Instead, she weaves together a nuanced narrative that unpacks the term''s intricacies while maintaining its importance." --Literary Review of Canada "Insightful . . . Plett opens the doors to so many rich conversations about what community--in all its iterations--can and cannot do." --Laura Sackton, Book Riot "A tightly woven, academic and literary brain dump of concepts and notions, posits and prompts, with a flight of challenging questions." --The Miramichi Reader "Plett uses her firsthand experiences to eventually reach a cumulative definition of community and explore how we form bonds with one another." --CBC Books "Plett ruminates on the importance of community in succinct, snappy prose." --Winnipeg Free Press "A spiral of thoughts and anecdotes organized around questions concerning what it means to be part of the queer and trans communities, On Community . . . is a heartfelt, funny, wistful read--just conceptually rigorous enough to provoke thought, but without difficult theory or jargon." --Kristina Rothstein, Geist "Amidst ... definitions and (re)interpretations of ''community,'' Casey Plett truly embodies the nuances, spits on assumptions and holds space for the real, the ugly, the bittersweet and everything in between." --The Ex Puritan "With humour and verve, Plett cuts through the platitudes often associated with how we talk about community. She offers a welcome, incisive analysis of power and belonging that feels as lived-in as it is hopeful." --The Tyee "Equal parts opinionated and open-minded, On Community is an insightful, personal, provocative and urgent little ''pamphlet'' that, I think, any member of the living human ''community'' should get their hands on." --Scout Magazine "Plett''s essay is a thoughtful, rich and engaging unpacking of the complexity behind simplistic ideas, and a clear-eyed consideration of what really is a universal human experience." --Pickle Me This "Plett reflects on her Mennonite roots, trans literature, nationalism, Silicon Valley, and the idea of family, in this consideration of how and why we manage to live together at all." --Quill and Quire Praise for Casey Plett "Plett''s trademark skills at authentic characterization, evocative setting, and insight into the lives of trans women are on full display in this superb collection of short stories. The stories crackle with quiet complexity." -- Autostraddle ("Best Queer Books of the Year") "Plett tells beautiful stories of trans women as they exist in the world: tangible, fallible, tender and hardened. -- Xtra "I''ve always admired Plett''s ability to capture the tenderest and most complicated intimacies between characters. Exploring addiction, loss, consent, and shifting desires, each story in her extraordinary new collection is somehow even more tender and emotionally complex than the last. --Megan Milks, The Rumpus "Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness--a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something--groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too. -- Globe and Mail "Both bittersweet and beautiful, Plett writes perfectly imperfect characters that make you feel less alone." -- The Independent (UK)
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20230807
Series Volume Number
8
Dewey Decimal
307
Synopsis
We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away? We 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. Looking 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, On Community is an essential contribution to the larger cultural discourse that asks how, and to what socio-political ends, we form bonds with one another., Finalist 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 CBC Books ' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the Fall - A Tyee Best Book of 2023 - A CBC Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 - A Hamilton Review of Books Best Book of 2023 - An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of 2023 We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away? We 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. Looking 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, On Community is an essential contribution to the larger cultural discourse that asks how, and to what socio-political ends, we form bonds with one another., Finalist 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 CBC Books' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the Fall * A Tyee Best Book of 2023 * A CBC Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 * A Hamilton Review of Books Best Book of 2023 * An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of 2023 We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away? We 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. Looking 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, On Community is an essential contribution to the larger cultural discourse that asks how, and to what socio-political ends, we form bonds with one another.
LC Classification Number
HM756.P54 2023
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- b***_ (1052)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseNo Communication Required. 15 Day Transatlantic Shipment. New Item in Excellent Condition as Described. A Satisfying Buy from a Reliable Seller.
- e***e (2538)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseBeautiful book on Georg Jensen, very carefully packed, only down side was the seller did not answer question about condition of book and the description did not provide this information. But the book was in very fine condition and the price was good.
- e***t (1424)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseExcellent transaction! Everything went very well with no issues. Item was packed well and was received in excellent condition. Seller shipped item fast and it arrived in a timely manner. Seller provided a clear and accurate description of the item. I recommend this seller and I would not hesitate to buy from them again.The Big Book of Superfast Matchbox Toys: 1969 (#226308862838)
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