{"product_id":"island-in-the-city-a-memoir-9781496207869","title":"Island in the City: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Micah McCrary\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat forges the unique human personality? In \u003ci\u003eIsland in the City\u003c\/i\u003e Micah McCrary, taking his genetic inheritance as immutable, considers the role geography has played in shaping who he is. Place often leaves indelible marks: the badges of self-discovery; the scars from adversity and hardship; the gilded stamps from personal triumphs; the tattoos of memory; and the new appendages--friendships, experiences, and baggage--we carry with us. Each place, with its own personality, has the power to form or revise our personhood in surprising and fascinating ways. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e McCrary considers three places he has called home (Normal, Illinois; Chicago; and Prague) and reflects on how these surroundings have shaped him. His sharp-eyed, charming memoir-in-essays contemplates how aspects of his identity, such as being black, male, middle-class, queer, and American, have developed and been influenced by where he hangs his hat.","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45129730130071,"sku":"9781496207869","price":1234.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781496207869.webp?v=1767101948","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/island-in-the-city-a-memoir-9781496207869","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}