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03116aam a22004458i 4500 001 709354DC3F4011EABCBAC90497128E48 003 SILO 005 20200125010058 008 190409s2020 nyu 000 j eng 010 $a 2019016488 020 $a 1984818163 020 $a 9781984818164 035 $a (OCoLC)1098230616 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d TP7 $d OCLCF $d IUO $d UAP $d TCH $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3604.R3428 $b A6 2020 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Drain, Jasmon, $e author. 240 10 $a Short stories. $k Selections 245 10 $a Stateway's garden : $b stories / $c Jasmon Drain. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House, $c [2020] 300 $a 266 pages ; $c 22 cm 505 00 $t Love-able lip gloss. $t Questions by the stove -- $t Wet paper grass -- $t Solane -- $t Reaganomics, left lying in the road -- $t Middle school -- $t Interpreting Dolton, at thirteen -- $t Shifts -- The Stateway condo gentrification -- $t Stephanie Worthington -- $t The tornado moat -- $t Love-able lip gloss. 520 $a "Before they were torn down in 2007, the Stateway Gardens public housing projects on Chicago's South Side were known as a hot-bed of poverty, drugs, gangs, 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 mid-1980s and taking readers up to the point of the destruction of the infamous Cabrini Green housing projects -- similar to the Stateway Gardens projects to the South of them -- this 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 Drain's sensitive and often playful prose, we see another side of what we have come to know as "the projects." Stateway's Garden is a coming-of-age 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, seemingly soulless concrete buildings. Not shying away from the darkness of life for his characters, Drain shows the full complexity of their human experiences." -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Community life $z Chicago $z Chicago $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Public housing $z Chicago $z Chicago $y 20th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Social classes $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nineteen eighties $v Fiction. 650 0 $a High-rise apartment buildings $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a South Side (Chicago, Ill.) $v Fiction. 941 $a 5 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909055924.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20210311010624.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806024204.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20200407010432.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200125010346.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=709354DC3F4011EABCBAC90497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search