McClelland’s most recent book, Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Built the Middle Class,
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At Chicago magazine McClelland tagged ten "favorite modern fiction titles set in Chicago," including:
The Kindest Lie (2021) by Nancy JohnsonRead about the other entries on the list.
Ruth Tuttle is young, successful, and Black on the South Side of Chicago at a moment when another young, successful Black South Sider is elected president of the United States. Ruth went to Yale and built a career as an engineer, but was only able to do so because she gave up a baby boy when she was a teenager. Before she can start a family with her husband, Ruth must return to her blue-collar Indiana hometown — which seems a lot like Gary — to find out what became of her son.
Q&A with Nancy Johnson.
--Marshal Zeringue