Prairie Avenue is a novel and, like all novels, is a mixture of fact and fiction. None of the characters is meant to be a portrait of any actual Chicagoan, living or dead; the author has, both intentionally and unintentionally (as a novelist must), scrambled houses and people, births and marriages, divorces and deaths, so that (he hopes) it would be a very wise descendant indeed who could match his ancestors to the histo ries belonging to them.
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