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Lissa, a seventeen-year-old art student living on her own in Chicago, must raise her eleven-year-old sister when their alcoholic mother becomes incapable of caring for her.

National Book Award 2019 Finalist! From the author of Printz Medal winner Bone Gap comes the unforgettable story of two young women--one living, one dead--dealing with loss, desire, and the fragility of the American dream during WWII.

". . . the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--match wits, harbor grudges,and recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they've built"--Provided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old Zuretta Palmer travels to Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair to find her missing sister, but when the police and the Pinkertons refuse to help her, Zuretta begins her own investigation by becoming a maid at the notorious Castle.

"Sixteen-year-old Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she's grown up in.