{"product_id":"this-is-where-i-am-zeke-caligiuri-9780816695720","title":"This Is Where I Am: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrison 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Is Where I Am\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Is Where I Am\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zeke Caligiuri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816695725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816695720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2016 pg. 11","brand":"Zeke Caligiuri","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44055934992639,"sku":"9780816695720","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cce28bfe-a390-4b25-a8e5-69cff5875634.jpg?v=1685038613","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-is-where-i-am-zeke-caligiuri-9780816695720","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}