The Plan of Chicago
A City in Stories
Published on 11. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-1-968148-11-9 (ISBN)
Description
FINALIST, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year (2025)
SHORTLISTED, William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (2025)
An Irish painting contractor in a changing neighborhood struggles with the complications of befriending a Black worker. The edgy enclave he fled haunts a South Side exile, upending his life. A boy who helps his father fake accidents for insurance claims reaches a turning point. A woman from a rough patch of South Shore remembers her first girlfriend. And a Census taker learns empathy as she counts people. Their lives weave through colorful, gritty streets in The Plan of Chicago, Barry Pearce's absorbing debut of heartbreaking division, unexpected intersections, and dim but possible dreams.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
369 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-968148-11-9 (9781968148119)
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Barry Pearce won the Nelson Algren Award for fiction in 2019. His stories have been published in Colorado Review, Cimarron Review, Cagibi, the Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago.