In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous motto, "Give the lady what she wants." His legendary charm also won the heart of socialite Delia Spencer and led to an infamous love affair.
Last Night At the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert
A highly ambitious and stylish literary debut set against the 1960's Chicago jazz scene about a talented but troubled singer's heartbreaking relationship with her precocious ten-year-old daughter.
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
A tale spanning the years between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I features characters who are caught up in such events as the labor troubles of Colorado, the Mexican revolution, and the heyday of silent-movie Hollywood.
Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
After sending their men off to fight in the war, sisters Kitty and Louise Heaney join their flirtatious younger sister, Tish, in writing letters to servicemen overseas, in a study of life during World War II from the perspective of the young men on the battlefield and the women left behind on the home front.
The Jazz Palace by Mary Morris
The son of a grieving Jewish family in jazz age Chicago impresses patrons of a mob-controlled saloon with his piano talents, which become subject to a changing music era, his need to survive, and exacting mob demands.
Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Set during the era after the Civil War, three people who have each come to Chicago in search of a new life struggle to overcome the pain of the past and define their own future as a divided nation tries to come together once again in the bitter aftermath of a terrible, bloody war and lay the pain of the past to rest .
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
This story, alternating between turn-of-the-century Chicago and modern times, features a man attempting to re-imagine the death of a Jewish immigrant.
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