Macy, who now lives in Roanoke, Va., talks to a number of people currently living in Urbana, trying to make do. She writes movingly about Silas James, a recent high school graduate who gets a scholarship to study for his welding certificate. His father died of a methadone overdose; his mother has been in and out of jail on drug charges.
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