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Prison is where Zeke Caligiuri is. Powderhorn Park in South Minneapolis, dubbed "Murderapolis" the year he turned eighteen, is where he comes from. It was the same neighborhood his father grew up in but had changed dramatically by the early 1990s. Yet in Zeke's family, father and mother and grandmother kept things together while all around them the houses decayed and once-safe streets gave way to the crush of poverty and crime. This Is Where I Am is Zeke Caligiuri's clear-eyed account of how he got from there to here, how a boy who had every hope went from dreaming of freedom to losing it, along with nearly everything and everyone he loved. Tenderhearted in its reflections on his lost childhood, brutally candid in its description of a life of hanging and hustling, Zeke's memoir recreates a world of tagging and goofing gone awry, of moving from smoking pot to unsuccessful attempts at dealing crack, of watching his father weep at the funeral of a seventeen-year-old boy, of going to jail: first strike. It is a place where, when asked what he's going to do with his life, a friend can only answer: "What the fuck are you talking about?" This Is Where I Am is Zeke's own answer: he is going to tell his story, every sharp detail and sobering word, with the natural grace of a gifted writer and the hard-won wisdom of hindsight. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I didn't get all the way through this novel, so I am not particularly comfortable rating it. However, it is a memoir rather than a "story"as such so I feel like it will be consistent the entire way through.
The experiences and writing are very honest, though a bit rambling at times. An interesting insight into living in a poverty stricken, high crime/violence town with a multitude of social issues including class/racism. Though this felt more like one event after the next rather than a real insight into Zeke's mind and experiences and what they meant to him.
Perhaps someone else will enjoy this novel. It's my no means a bad read, just not for me :) (