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High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing

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In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicagos iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly at the heart of our national identity. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 209 x 139mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Jan 2021
  • Publisher: Haymarket Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781642595376

About

Audrey Petty is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A Ford Foundation grantee her work has been featured in Colorlines StoryQuarterly and Saveur among many others. Alex Kotlowitz is the author of There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. His nonfiction stories have appeared in print radio and film. From his documentary The Interrupters to his stories in The New York Times Magazine and on public radios This American Life hes been honored in all three mediums.

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