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Wicker Park Wishes

Name: Wicker Park Wishes
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A young woman in Chicago seeks to trade the “right track” for love and freedom while partying in pre-gentrified Wicker Park.

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Author

Margaret Larkin

Margaret Larkin grew up in Evanston, Illinois and has lived in the City of Chicago for more than 25 years on the North Side, most recently in Streeterville (with her husband who is a graphic artist). She teaches English as a Second Language and podcasting (she started podcasting in 2009 via Radiogirl) at local colleges, in addition to writing and editing. Connect via @metrolingua on Twitter and Instagram, and /metrolingua on Facebook. Read More

Margaret’s book Wicker Park Wishes is a very Nick Hornsby-esque look at single life in the 90s. It’s a vivid fun read.

John Siuntres, creator and host of the Word Balloon podcast

Summary

In 1994 Chicago, the Internet barely exists, people use payphones, and answering machines can make or break a relationship. Claire lives with her roommate in a shabby apartment in pre-gentrified Wicker Park, where needles dot the sidewalks and pot is still illegal. She wants to get away from her suburban North Shore background, going from country club to dance club, and gets wasted along the way. She has an okay temp job downtown, but all she wants to do is make enough money to get out of Chicago and see the world. Her plan is chugging along until guys, work, and friends complicate the situation, and ultimately she has to decide what she really wants.

Reviews

Margaret’s book Wicker Park Wishes is a very Nick Hornsby-esque look at single life in the 90s. It’s a vivid fun read.

John Siuntres, creator and host of the Word Balloon podcast
From the moment we meet Claire, hungover and ‘over it,’ riding on the speeding L towards her office job in the Loop, we love her. She is refreshingly cynical, no-nonsense, and most endearing of all, earnestly seeking something more than the life she sees laid out before her. Margaret Larkin takes us right back into the world of 1990s Chicago, following Claire, a young twenty-something college grad, as she navigates the social and dating scenes of that pre-internet era. This is a fun, fast paced read, and we cannot help but cheer for Claire—a very real character who I’d love to be friends with—the entire way!

Meg Ritter
Your book was very well written. I enjoyed it because of all the local references. And it wasn’t predictable, so I kept reading to see how you were going to land it. You did a great job of transporting us back to 1994. Not THAT long ago, but soooo different!

Clint Phillips
What a page turner! I just finished your book and couldn’t put it down. It was interesting to follow Claire’s exploits, and I was interested in her relationship with her father, stepmother, and stepbrother. It was also fun reading about a Chicago now long gone! Congratulations on such an impressive debut.

Tate Gunnerson
I finished your book. Excellent! This brought me back to the days when things were a bit simpler: no cell phones, no Internet, you actually had to use land lines and keep promises to meet at a certain time. I think it was funny how she always had to find change for the payphone. I also like the references to places around Chicagoland.

Lana Simon
Margaret has a way of writing about Chicago and transporting the reader back to a time before the Internet was a part of daily life, before we were tethered to our cell phones and when you actually called people to make plans and have interpersonal relationships. “Wicker Park Wishes” really takes me back to the 1990s with Margaret’s artful and accurate style of writing, and the descriptions of Chicago neighborhoods from that time make me feel as if I am really there. She does a great job painting a picture of Chicago without making it seem forced.

Tina E. Akouris
Your book is excellent. It pops in my head whenever I’m in Wicker Park. It’s a great read. I devoured it once I started it.

Davis Staudacher

Wicker Park Wishes

Author

Margaret Larkin

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