Windy City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812976694)

In a novel as brawling and boisterous as Chicago itself, Scott Simon delivers a tale both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving, capturing the multiethnic tumult of big city politics.

The mayor of Chicago is found in his office late at night, murdered, facedown in a pizza. As police race to find the killer, the interim mayor, Sundaran "Sunny" Roopini, tries to juggle his responsibilities as a recently widowed father of two teenage daughters while herding his forty-nine fellow city aldermen toward choosing a new mayor. Over the course of four days, this raft of colorful characters-heroes, rascals, and pinky-ringed pols of all creeds, colors, and proclivities-will clash, as Sunny, a flawed but decent man, tries to hold together his family and his city.

Author: Scott Simon
ISBN-10: 081297669X
ISBN-13: 9780812976694
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2009
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.22w x 0.95d