Chicago Tales Author:Bill VanPatten "Last year the Virgin Mary appeared underneath the Kennedy Expressway. . ." . . .and so begins the story of "Guadalupe" in Chicago Tales. In This collection of fourteen stories--all set in or around Chicago--provides a rich mosaic of characters caught in events ranging from the everyday to the out of ordinary. The psychiat... more »rist battling his own demons while treating a woman who believes she is turning into a bird, the mischievous ten-year old twins in 1963 who unwittingly put into motion a set of events leading to the demise of their family, a young Irish woman in an anti-immigrant Chicago of 1871 who stumbles upon her mother's crime, the unlikely pairing of a middle-aged vodka swigging atheist and a Bible toting college student who find themselves the last persons alive in Chicago--these people rise to meet their challenges, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, but always finding they are changed forever.« less