23. Don De Grazia "American Skin"
Spending so much time in the Lakeview neighborhood as a teenager definitely made "American Skin" a quick, easy and entirely enjoyable read.
"American Skin" is the story of Alex Verdi, a 17-year old kind-of runaway that stumbles upon skinhead culture at the Punkin' Donuts at Belmont and Clark. Within days, Alex is a skinhead, not the Hitler kind, the other kind, working and living in a punk club. For the first 150 pages of the book I was surprised that this hasn't been optioned for a film. The last 150 pages made it clear why it wasn't.
De Grazia's style is similar to Joe Meno, a fellow Chicago based Columbia College writer. In fact, "American Skin" and "Hairstyles of the Damned" main differences are the South Suburbs vs. the North side and a slightly higher income.
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