NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWEDITORS CHOICE A blazingly original story collection about the interconnected lives of the residents of a public housing project on the South Side of ChicagoThe residents and their buoyant dreams are documented, celebrated, honored. I bow to this writer in gratitude.Sandra CisnerosNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNEBefore being torn down in 2007, the Stateway Gardens public housing projects on Chicagos South Side were ridden with deprivation and crime. But for some, like Tracy, the shy, intelligent young boy at the center of this enthralling collection of linked stories, they are simply home. Set in the mid1980s and taking readers up to the point of the destruction of the infamous CabriniGreen housing projectsa set of buildings similar in design to Stateway Gardens to the souththis collection gives an intimate look at the hopes, dreams, failures, and fortunes of a group of people growing up with the deck always stacked against them. Through Jasmon Drains sensitive and often playful prose, we see another side of what we have come to know as the projects.Stateways Gardenis a comingofage story told in short stories, through the lens of a childhood made rough by the crush of poverty and violence, with the crack epidemic a looming specter ahead. And yet, through the experiences and ambitions of Tracy and other young characters, Drain reveals a vibrant community that creates its own ecosystem, all set in a series of massive,...

Binding: Hardback;288 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 518 g; Dimensions: 149 x 217 x 26

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