{"product_id":"this-is-where-i-am-9780816695720","title":"This Is Where I Am","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the memoir of Zeke Caligiuri, who grew up in South Minneapolis in the 1990s when the city was dubbed \"Murderapolis.\" Currently in prison, Zeke's story is a clear-eyed account of how he got from there to here, how a boy who had every hope went from dreaming of freedom to losing it, along with nearly everything and everyone he loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An intimate, searing, and important document that makes no excuses for its subject’s life-choices and is all the more powerful for its honesty.”—Joyce Carol Oates           \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThis Is Where I Am\u003c\/i\u003e is a fabulous book that maps out the real lives of the city and the neighborhoods, of real hopes that die and real dreams that resurrect. For every hour of joy or sorrow the common citizen experiences, Zeke Caligiuri aptly magnifies that same hour into an eternity of lives deeply lived and feared and loved and lost. Every school, judge, counselor, and policeman ought to read this book. Read it. Read it again. Read it until you understand that how we make and shape our society is our responsibility—all of ours.\"—Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of \u003ci\u003eSinging at the Gates\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Zeke Caligiuri's debut memoir, \u003ci\u003eThis Is Where I Am\u003c\/i\u003e, soulfully evokes his childhood playgrounds and present-day prison cells—and situates him as a powerful new voice in contemporary literature, a voice that is at once literary and streetwise, with an ice-cold restraint that blisters the heart.\"—Matt Burgess, author of \u003ci\u003eUncle Janice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDogfight, A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Caligiuri demonstrates a willingness and ability to look back and share his experiences without judgment or ego, which makes for a fascinating and moving account of one man’s incarceration and life.\"—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Born and raised in the Powderhorn neighborhood, Caligiuri follows an all-too-familiar downward spiral: gang-banger friends + drugs + alcohol + guns = jail time. What is unexpected is the poetic curiosity Caligiuri exhibits in \u003ci\u003eThis Is Where I Am.\u003c\/i\u003e\"—\u003ci\u003eCity Pages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He’s brutally honest. In raw yet lyrical language, he attempts to explain how a once promising life went wrong.\"—\u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e I. The Beginning\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Dodge Duster\u003cbr\u003e 2. An Orphan at Christmas\u003cbr\u003e 3. Granny in a Yellow Dress\u003cbr\u003e 4. On Pilgrimage\u003cbr\u003e 5. Monsters and Floral Print Skirts\u003cbr\u003e 6. Marching on the Third Precinct\u003cbr\u003e II. Life, What I Would Be\u003cbr\u003e 7. Prayer and Resurrection\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Block Club\u003cbr\u003e 9. Fathers and Sons, Men and Boys\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Class of 1996\u003cbr\u003e 11. The First Strike\u003cbr\u003e 12. Snapshots of Me and Her in New York\u003cbr\u003e 13. A House, A Neighborhood\u003cbr\u003e 14. From September to September\u003cbr\u003e III. Death, Putting it Back Together\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Last Visit from the Girl in the Willow Tree\u003cbr\u003e 16. Walking into the Rest of My Life\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Only One Not There\u003cbr\u003e 18. Just Pictures\u003cbr\u003e 19. No Man’s Land\u003cbr\u003e 20. A Homecoming\u003cbr\u003e 21. Bombs\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: This is Where I Am\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405976478039,"sku":"9780816695720","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816695720.jpg?v=1730494114","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/this-is-where-i-am-9780816695720","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}