"Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter's best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim in a...

After Emily Cabot is expelled from the University of Chicago, she finds work at Hull House, the famous settlement established by Jane Addams. There she quickly becomes involved in the political and social problems of the immigrant community. But when a man who works for a sweatshop owner is murdered in the Hull House parlor, Emily must determine whether one of her colleagues is responsible, or whether the real reason for the murder is revenge for

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"Broadview has done it again. Joseph Dimuro's expertly assembled edition of Henry Blake Fuller's The Cliff-Dwellers places this important novel--one of the first representations of the modern American city--in a set of productive and provocative historical, literary, visual, and socio-cultural contexts. Dimuro's introduction and carefully selected appendices connect Fuller and his text with contemporary currents in literary realism, turn-of-the-century...