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127355Stateway's Gardenhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/c31a8d79-f296-392b-92b2-f0116f27dcea/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1572860/4dbc8d24-bccc-4447-9c05-96d1b4c5bb9b.jpg?v=638338387000970000359359MXNPenguin Random House Audio Publishing GroupInStock/Audiolibros/<p><strong><em>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</em> EDITORS CHOICE A blazingly original story collection about the interconnected lives of the residents of a public housing project on the South Side of Chicago</strong></p><p><strong>The residents and their buoyant dreams are documented, celebrated, honored. I bow to this writer in gratitude.Sandra Cisneros</strong></p><p><strong>NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <em>CHICAGO TRIBUNE</em></strong></p><p>Before being torn down in 2007, the Stateway Gardens public housing projects on Chicagos South Side were ridden with deprivation 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 projectsa set of buildings similar in design to Stateway Gardens to the souththis 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 Drains sensitive and often playful prose, we see another side of what we have come to know as the projects.</p><p><em>Stateways Garden</em> 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.</p><p>Exquisitely detailed and novelistic in scope, this collection of stories will linger in your mind long after you have turned the final page.</p>...124798Stateway's Garden359359https://www.gandhi.com.mx/c31a8d79-f296-392b-92b2-f0116f27dcea/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1572860/4dbc8d24-bccc-4447-9c05-96d1b4c5bb9b.jpg?v=638338387000970000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20209780593154656_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9780593154656_<p><strong><em>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</em> EDITORS’ CHOICE • A blazingly original story collection about the interconnected lives of the residents of a public housing project on the South Side of Chicago</strong></p><p><strong>“The residents and their buoyant dreams are documented, celebrated, honored. I bow to this writer in gratitude.”—Sandra Cisneros</strong></p><p><strong>NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <em>CHICAGO TRIBUNE</em></strong></p><p>Before being torn down in 2007, the Stateway Gardens public housing projects on Chicago’s South Side were ridden with deprivation 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—a set of buildings similar in design to Stateway Gardens to the south—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.”</p><p><em>Stateway’s Garden</em> 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.</p><p>Exquisitely detailed and novelistic in scope, this collection of stories will linger in your mind long after you have turned the final page.</p>(*_*)9780593154656_<p><strong><em>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</em> EDITORS CHOICE A blazingly original story collection about the interconnected lives of the residents of a public housing project on the South Side of Chicago</strong></p><p><strong>The residents and their buoyant dreams are documented, celebrated, honored. I bow to this writer in gratitude.Sandra Cisneros</strong></p><p><strong>NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <em>CHICAGO TRIBUNE</em></strong></p><p>Before being torn down in 2007, the Stateway Gardens public housing projects on Chicagos South Side were ridden with deprivation 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 projectsa set of buildings similar in design to Stateway Gardens to the souththis 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 Drains sensitive and often playful prose, we see another side of what we have come to know as the projects.</p><p><em>Stateways Garden</em> 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.</p><p>Exquisitely detailed and novelistic in scope, this collection of stories will linger in your mind long after you have turned the final page.</p>...9780593154656_Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Groupaudiolibro_c31a8d79-f296-392b-92b2-f0116f27dcea_9780593154656;9780593154656_9780593154656Jasmon DrainInglésMéxicoNoMINUTE2020-01-21T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group