{"product_id":"9780810148703","title":"Transanything : Essays by Ever Jones","description":"A debut essay collection that upends our notions of loneliness, wilderness, and liberation   Transanything?reveals a world in metamorphosis. A hermit crab retires its shell, lovers drift apart, and seasons churn, all amid Ever Jones's own narrative of midlife gender transition.  ?  Jones takes up a tradition of writing-about the American landscape, solitude, wilderness, and the West-long intertwined with colonialism and heteropatriarchy, and makes it wholly their own. A self-proclaimed \"nature essay\" misbehaves, wandering away from the hummingbird outside Jones's window.?In their chronicle of a week in Yellowstone, Jones?navigates trails frequented by grizzlies and a campground where their identity is regarded as equally dangerous. Elk, bison, and bark spiders roam this book's pages, but it is the gray wolf-the embattled apex predator of the American West, narrow survivor of settler colonial violence, and vessel for American myths of independence-who emerges as Jones's shapeshifting coprotagonist.  ?  Taking on a global web of colonial systems that seek to divide us, Jones?disrupts loneliness and forges space for queerness and transness to be aliveness-to be transanything.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311959486837,"sku":"9780810148703","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780810148703.jpg?v=1762820074","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780810148703","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}