In one novel set in this city, an Eastern European writer named Brik investigates the shooting of the title Jewish immigrant by this city's police chief. That novel is Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project. One essay declares that loving this city is "like loving a woman with a broken nose," because "you may well find lovelier lovelies, but never a lovely so real." A novel named after the first line of DeLillo's Americana is about an advertising agency in this city; that novel is Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. This subject of a Nelson Algren essay about a "
In one novel set in this city, an Eastern European writer named Brik investigates the shooting of the title Jewish immigrant by this city's police chief. That novel is Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project. One essay declares that loving this city is "like loving a woman with a broken nose," because "you may well find lovelier lovelies, but never a lovely so real." A novel named after the first line of DeLillo's Americana is about an advertising agency in this city; that novel is Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. This subject of a Nelson Algren essay about a "city on the make" is the setting of "Barbie-Q," one of the vignettes which make up a novel in which Esperanza Cordero lives in the title building in this city, The House on Mango Street. For 10 points, name this setting of A Street in Bronzeville, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Jungle, a city described as the "Hog Butcher for the World" in a poem by Carl Sandburg.
In one novel set in this city, an Eastern European writer named Brik investigates the shooting of the title Jewish immigrant by this city's police chief.
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