Literary Chicago - Bonnie Jo Campbell, "Women and Other Animals"

Literary Chicago is series where I try to capture the essence of the city by how it is described in fiction, primarily from books that don't take place in Chicago.  

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"Hal always said Chicago didn't have anything that mattered. The Sears Tower is there, Bess had said, and Hal said the Sears Tower was just another tall building."

pg. 44 "Women and Other Animals" short story collection by Bonnie Jo Campbell. (1999)