{"product_id":"9781897535233","title":"The Door is Open: Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinalist, City of Vancouver Book Prize\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLong listed for CBC Canada Reads 2015\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Door Is Open\u003c\/i\u003e is a compassionate, reflective, and informative memoir about three-and-a-half years spent volunteering at a skid row drop-in centre in Vancouver’s downtown eastside. In an area most renowned for its shocking social ills, and the notorious distinction of holding the country‘s “very poorest forward sortation area of all 7,000 postal prefixes,” Bart Campbell dismantles our hard-held notions about poverty, the disenfranchised, substance abuse, and the nature of charity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Door Is Open\u003c\/i\u003e is one man’s story of a transformative journey into the complicated and complex world of poverty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Door is Open\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e: \u003cp\u003e\"The best recent book on the human face of this country's outcasts.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Toronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The human face of poverty that grips upward of 5 million Canadians is vividly portrayed in \u003ci\u003eThe Door Is Open\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eQuill\u0026amp;Quire\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"my pick as the best non-fiction book published in 2001\" (\u003ci\u003ediscorder\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anvil Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154215485680,"sku":"9781897535233","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781897535233_p0.jpg?v=1763611253","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781897535233","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}