Island in the city
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Micah McCrary
Series: American lives; American lives
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781496207869
Subjects: Travel
Description: "Micah McCrary's sharp-eyed, charming memoir-in-essays contemplates how place has the power to form or revise our personhood in amazing and fascinating ways. He reconsiders three places he has called home--Normal, Illinois; Chicago; and Prague--to meditate on how his identity has been shaped by where he hangs his hat"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-153).
Table of contents: title: Normal. Oreo; title: Postures of privilege; title: To rebel against men; title: Ever the moth; title: Chicago. Metropolis; title: Green and gray; title: Geraldyne's room; title: Two cities; title: Playground city; title: Prague. Snow globe bohemia; title: Island in the city; title: A good fake Czech; title: Cabaret; title: An idea of Prague; title: Epilogue.