{"product_id":"island-in-the-city-a-memoir-9781496207869","title":"Island in the City: A Memoir","description":"What forges the unique human personality? In \u003ci\u003eIsland in the City\u003c\/i\u003e Micah McCrary, taking his genetic inheritance as immutable, considers the role geography has played in shaping who he is. Place often leaves indelible marks: the badges of self-discovery; the scars from adversity and hardship; the gilded stamps from personal triumphs; the tattoos of memory; and the new appendages--friendships, experiences, and baggage--we carry with us. Each place, with its own personality, has the power to form or revise our personhood in surprising and fascinating ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e McCrary considers three places he has called home (Normal, Illinois; Chicago; and Prague) and reflects on how these surroundings have shaped him. His sharp-eyed, charming memoir-in-essays contemplates how aspects of his identity, such as being black, male, middle-class, queer, and American, have developed and been influenced by where he hangs his hat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMicah McCrary\u003c\/b\u003e's work has been published in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eRumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMidwestern Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIdentity Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThird Coast\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an assistant editor at \u003ci\u003eHotel Amerika\u003c\/i\u003e, a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eAssay\u003c\/i\u003e, and a founding coeditor of \u003ci\u003econ-text\u003c\/i\u003e. A teaching associate and PhD candidate in English at Ohio University, he holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia College Chicago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51276771655954,"sku":"9781496207869","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1bfe16e9-b3d0-4484-a292-c25e931a1c66.jpg?v=1747138056","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/island-in-the-city-a-memoir-9781496207869","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}