White Flight

Chicago's western suburbs. Young Joe Walsh is making a go of
it at a new school, still haunted by his rough-and-tumble city upbringing. He's
got some great opportunities-a summer seminar at one of the world's top physics
laboratories, a hard-hitting Catholic clergyman and boxing instructor who
thinks he's got talent in the ring, and a beautiful girlfriend who's giving him
some much-needed love and support. But the challenges of Chicago have followed
him to its outskirts; his sister's struggling to recover after being shot by
one of his former friends, his mom's unvarnished ways are rubbing their wealthy
neighbors the wrong way, and his brother's fresh out of prison and falling into
old habits. Like many young men before him, Joe's taking out his frustrations
in the boxing ring, and dreaming of a triumphant career-but will that, too,
become a prison?



This sequel to Bill Hillmann's The Old Neighborhood hits
like the end of a 1-2 punch. It's another modern classic from one of the city's
best authors, a powerful read unlike anything you've read before.