In SOMETHING BETWEEN US, anthropologist Anand Pandian offers us a remarkable close-up of the forces that have hardened our suspicions of others. From car dealerships to sales conferences of home fortification systems and materials, Pandian travels the country to locate the language and attitudes that produce our high-stakes divisions, and asks: how can we rebuild a collective life beyond them?

It's an essential book for the present moment, and one that offers new trajectories of thought to last beyond this event. Emma Snyder, owner of The Ivy Bookshop, will join Anand Pandian in conversation. We hope you will join us, too.

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Anand Pandian is a professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times, and Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down, forthcoming from Stanford University Press. A former department chair of anthropology, he serves now as President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. He also serves as a curator of the Ecological Design Collective, a community for radical ecological imagination and collaborative practice. He lives with his family in Baltimore, where he is currently working on a new book project on decay, waste, and the crafting of ecological futures.

Emma Snyder is the owner of The Ivy Bookshop and Bird in Hand Coffee & Books in Baltimore, Maryland. The former Executive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, she holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Wisconsin.

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