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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.
Contents
Foreword
Luis Alberto Urrea
Introduction
Roxanne Pilat, David Schaafsma, Lauren DeJulio Bell
1. Chicago
Daiva Markelis
2. Between Boys
Anne Calcagno
3. Running Girl
Nnedi Okorafor
4. Vigil
Stuart Dybek
5.All-American Boy
David Mura
6. Excerpt from Love, Hate and Other Filters
Samira Ahmed
7. Planet Rock
Dhana-Marie Branton
8. White Power
Christian Picciolini
9. Dillinger
Jessie Ann Foley
10. Mothman
Emil Ferris
11. Excerpt fromI Am Not Your PerfectMexican Daughter
Erika SÁnchez
12. Detention
James McManus
13. The Untouchables
Maxine Chernoff
14. Discovering My Femininity in Menswear
M Shelly Conner
15. Death of a Right Fielder
Stuart Dybek
16. My Mother's Mexico
Ana Castillo
17. My Father's Pillowtalk
Charles Johnson
18. The Power and Limitations of Victim-Impact Statements
Rebecca Makkai
19. Grave News
Saja Elshareif
20. During the Reign of Vytautis the Great
Daiva Markelis
21. Children of the Fifty-Sixers: Growing Up in Hungarian Chicago
Rebecca Makkai
22. Growing Up in Chicago
Tony Romano
23. The View From the South Side, 1970
George Saunders
Biographies
Acknowledgments
Credits
