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The irresistible follow-up to Adam
Langer’s debut hit, Crossing California—the
most vivid novel about Chicago since Saul Bellow’s Herzog
and the most ambitious debut set in Chicago since Philip Roth’s
Letting Go
More than a year and a half has passed
since Jill Wasserstrom tried to catch up to Muley Wills in
West Rogers Park. Now, they are high school students in love,
but will their relationship survive as their world expands
beyond the boundaries of West Rogers Park? Over the course
of five years—from 1982 to 1987—Jill,
Muley, and their families and friends will experience love,
betrayal, reunions, sex, death, and rebirth. They will live
through years of triumph and despair—the
deaths of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko
and the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev; the death of the Chicago
political machine and the rise and fall of Harold Washington;
the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and the arrival
of Halley’s Comet. They will travel from Chicago to Cape Canaveral,
Florida, to New York, Europe, and beyond. And once again,
Jill and Muley will find themselves on a street corner in
a very different Chicago from the one they first knew.
Adam Langer has worked
extensively as a print journalist, film producer, and playwright,
and has been featured on NPR, CNN Headline News, Fox News,
and E! Entertainment Television. Langer is a former senior
editor of Book magazine and a recipient of a National
Arts Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University. |
