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Review: City by James Roy

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Title: City
Series: None, companion to Town
Author: James Roy
Published by: University of Queensland Press 2012
Genre: YA, contemporary, short stories
Length: 312 pages
Rating: 4 stars
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Everyone has a story

The people in City aren’t special. They’re the young people you walk past everyday – school students, uni students, struggling poets, graffiti artists, drug addicts, country girls and accidental criminals. But that’s the brilliance of this book. In a world where young people are often ignored or even shunned, it’s a reminder that everyone, even a kid staring into space on the bus, has a story.

Each chapter is a snapshot into another person’s life. Whether it’s a boy watching his house burn down, a girl desperately missing her country town home, a boy’s letter to his mother explaining where everything went wrong, or a short poem, each story is entertaining and provides…

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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