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Through a blend of memoir, theory, ethnography, and fiction, Jackson shows us how the elective affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age, and offer us perennial means of taking stock of our lives and getting a measure of our own self-worth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302625980789,"sku":"9781512824124","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781512824124_81d49fb6-57bb-4a98-817f-34133659bba7.jpg?v=1786022354"},{"product_id":"9781785276415","title":"Quandaries of Belonging","description":"\u003cp\u003eQuandaries of Belonging is both a personal meditation on the author's relationship with Aotearoa New Zealand and a critical exploration of coexistence in a postcolonial society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305581785461,"sku":"9781785276415","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781785276415_dfd1d2e4-ed7d-483b-8a0f-965e7a9b3b4c.jpg?v=1786025372"},{"product_id":"9788763540360","title":"The Politics of Storytelling","description":"Hannah Arendt famously argued that politics are best understood as a power relationship between private and public realms. 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