{"product_id":"growing-up-chicago-9780810143685","title":"Growing Up Chicago","description":"\u003ci\u003eGrowing Up Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e 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? Contributors to the volume include renowned writers Ana Castillo, Stuart Dybek, Emil Ferris, Charles Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, Erika L. Sánchez, and George Saunders, as well as emerging talents. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID SCHAAFSMA\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English and director of the Program in English Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The author of several books on teaching and learning in high school and college English classrooms, he is the editor of \u003ci\u003eJane Addams in the Classroom \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eLiteracy and Democracy: Composition Studies and Literacy in Pursuit of Habitable Spaces; Further Conversations from the Students of Jay Robinson.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eROXANNE PILAT\u003c\/b\u003e holds a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MA in writing from DePaul University. Previously a secondary school instructor, journalist, and corporate communications consultant, she teaches at North Central College and Dominican University. Her work has been published in the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHummingbird Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWindows, \u003c\/i\u003e and in the anthology \u003ci\u003eItalian Women in Chicago: Madonna mia! QUI debbo vivere?\u003c\/i\u003e She is a founding editor of the literary journal \u003ci\u003ePackingtown Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLAUREN DEJULIO BELL\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She previously taught in the UIC English Department and the Chicago Public Schools district. She serves on the associate board of \u003ci\u003eStoryStudio Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e and leads a local project (\u003ci\u003eWe Are All Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e), where she engages with the people of Chicago to foster civic engagement, community writing, and artistic endeavors. A paper she coauthored, \"Turning Schools Inside Out: Connecting Schools and Communities through Public Arts and Literacies,\" was published in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Language and Literacy Education.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50724825989394,"sku":"9780810143685","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ba2de145-e002-45a1-b17a-f3064e0b9f9d.jpg?v=1734810425","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/growing-up-chicago-9780810143685","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}