Make Good Choices: Stories

Make Good Choices is a deeply-rendered love note to Chicago in four story sections. "Larkins" follows Gabriel Larkin's family's move from a South Side Irish-American neighborhood to the suburbs. "Old Chicago" centers on unlikely reunions and alliances from the 1960s to present day, highlighting cultural institutions of the Loop threatened by street violence. In "Difficult Kids," a foster child's deepest desire to belong finds him falling in love with the girl next door, a budding pianist. "Larkin Redux" returns Gabriel to his origins in Rogers Park, where he must reconcile a long life of difficult choices.