A review by melissadeemcdaniel
Make Me a City by Jonathan Carr

4.0

Make me a City is a sprawling, raucous, noisy novel set in the early years of Chicago. Told through the lens of the founding father Pointe du Sable and his descendants, “City” delves the depths of the striving, ambitious, often criminal but always energetic stories of the first inhabitants of the city on the prairie.

I loved the way story kept returning to the family of du Sable. In every generation, the history kept returning to the lie that formed the founding story, and its reverberations through the years.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.