A review by abeanbg
Make Me a City by Jonathan Carr

4.0

Big-hearted, brawling, grand, intimate, inquisitive, and full of judgment - this is a novel that captures the dynamic of Chicago in its madcap first century of existence. Carr's novel, which is structured as a series of interlocking short stories, scratches an itch I have long had for good historical fiction set in Chicago's past. It's not quite E.L. Doctorow or Hillary Mantel, but what is? This wonderful re-mythologizing of how a prairie swamp became the city of the century is instantly one of my go-to recommendations for books about my city.