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Childhood and Other Neighborhoods

By Stuart Dybek

University of Chicago Press, 201 pages, $16 paper

This astonishing collection of stories told from the points of view of children and teenagers languished out of print until recently. Set in Pilsen, these stories are a marvelous complement to “Crossing California,” the novel we review on the front page today: a few miles apart, different neighborhoods, animated by similar themes of despair, hope and humor.