{"product_id":"growing-up-chicago-9780810143685","title":"Growing Up Chicago","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of coming-of-age stories that reflect the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. The 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A literary guide to the soul of this great, burly place.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, from the foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An entertaining and touching tumble of sexual awakenings, identity quests, dangerous liaisons, early sorrows, boundary crossings, and 16-inch softball. There’s a different Chicago in each piece—the city serves as witness, backdrop, companion, solace. This ethnically, racially, and geographically diverse collection takes us to a snowy Chicago alley, a suburban living room, Catholic school, playgrounds and fields, buses and subways, the Art Institute, and a gas station in its explorations of the private and dramatic world of childhood and adolescence. This accomplished collection reminds us that childhood is never safe, but it is also wondrous and raw.” —S.L. Wisenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Cancer Bitch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLuis Alberto Urrea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoxanne Pilat, David Schaafsma, Lauren DeJulio Bell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Chicago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaiva Markelis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Between Boys\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnne Calcagno\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Running Girl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNnedi Okorafor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Vigil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStuart Dybek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5.All-American Boy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid Mura\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Excerpt from \u003ci\u003eLove, Hate and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eOther Filters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Samira Ahmed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Planet Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDhana-Marie Branton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. White Power\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristian Picciolini\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Dillinger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJessie Ann Foley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Mothman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmil Ferris\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Excerpt from\u003ci\u003eI Am Not Your Perfect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMexican Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eErika SÁnchez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Detention\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJames McManus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. The Untouchables\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaxine Chernoff\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14. Discovering My Femininity in Menswear\u003cbr\u003e M Shelly Conner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15. Death of a Right Fielder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStuart Dybek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16. My Mother’s Mexico\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAna Castillo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17. My Father’s Pillowtalk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharles Johnson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18. The Power and Limitations of Victim-Impact Statements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRebecca Makkai\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19. Grave News\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaja Elshareif\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20. During the Reign of Vytautis the Great\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaiva Markelis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e21. Children of the Fifty-Sixers: Growing Up in Hungarian Chicago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRebecca Makkai\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e22. Growing Up in Chicago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTony Romano\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e23. The View From the South Side, 1970\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorge Saunders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCredits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038272487767,"sku":"9780810143685","price":20.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810143685.jpg?v=1750939728","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/growing-up-chicago-9780810143685","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}