Windy City

Windy City
by Scott Simon

Windy City
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Author: Scott Simon
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-04-14
ISBN: 081297669X
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Summary of Windy City

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.

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