Growing Up Chicago (Paperback)

Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book collects work by writers who spent their formative years in the region to ask: What characterizes a Chicago author? Is it a certain feel to the writer's language? A narrative sensibility? The mention of certain neighborhoods or locales? While the authors represented here write from distinct local experiences, some universals emerge, including the abiding influence of family and friends and the self-realizations earned against the background of a place sparkling with promise and riven by inequality, a place in constant flux. The stories evoke childhood trips to the Art Institute of Chicago, nighttime games of ringolevio, and the giant neon Magikist lips that once perched over the expressway, sharing perspectives that range from a young man who dreams of becoming an artist to a single mother revisiting her Mexican roots, from a woman's experience with sexual assault to a child's foray into white supremacy. This book memorably explores culture, social identity, and personal growth through the eyes of Chicagoans, affirming that we each hold the ability to shape the places in which we live and write and read as much as those places shape us.

General

Imprint:	Northwestern University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Second to None: Chicago Stories
Release date:	May 2022
Editors:	David Schaafsma • Lauren Dejulio Bell • Roxanne Pilat
Authors:	Samira Ahmed • Dhana-Marie Branton • Anne Calcagno • Ana Castillo • Maxine Chernoff • Shelly M Conner • Stuart Dybek
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-8101-4368-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > History > History of other lands Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-8101-4368-2
Barcode:	9780810143685

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