And in it you really talk about what it is to grow up as a Muslim in suburban America.

在这本书中，您讲到了,作为一位穆斯林，在美国市郊成长的经历。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It had a first part called "Southern Night" and a second part called "The Horror and the Glory." "Southern Night" was about his experience growing up in Mississippi.

第一部分是，“南方的夜”,第二部分是，“恐怖与荣誉”,“南方的夜”写他在密西西比成长的经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Trouble the Water; a novel about growing up in the South by Melvin Dixon, a great novel that gets little attention, and his lifelong struggle to understand just how Southern he was in New York.

再如梅尔文·迪克逊的《水的困扰》,是一本关于南方的成长经历的小说,一本伟大却不出名的小说,他终其一生都在试图理解,为何他在纽约那么像个南方人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Yes, this is a book about the privations of growing up in the South poor and black, but it is very much, very consciously, a book about the development of someone who attends to language.

书的着重点的确是,记述在南方成长的穷孩子，但作者刻意地描述了，一个关注语言人的成长经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选