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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. To Tracy, a shy, intelligent young boy, they are simply home. Set in the mid-1980s, this collection of linked short stories 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. -- adapted from jacket
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Stateway's Garden, Jasmon Drain
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- Released
- 2020
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- Title
- Stateway's Garden
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jasmon Drain
- Publisher
- Random House LCC US
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1984818163
- ISBN13
- 9781984818164
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Social Issues, Coming Of Age, Race, Racism, African American Literature
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
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- 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. To Tracy, a shy, intelligent young boy, they are simply home. Set in the mid-1980s, this collection of linked short stories 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. -- adapted from jacket