chicago (illinois)

Memoir of Jose Angel N., an undocumented Mexican immigrant who nonetheless managed to finish his GED and even attend college and graduate school, all without proper identification.

Two young men raised in the Chicago ghetto tell what life is like for the residents of the city's housing projects, drawing from hours of interviews they conducted for two National Public Radio documentaries, and provide an on-site account of the death of Eric Morse, a little boy dropped out of a fourteenth-floor window.