Zoe Clark is back in Chicago, and she already wants to run. But she can never turn her back on her monstrous hometown again. Grief, technology, isolation, and emptiness keep her up at night. Or maybe it's the coffee. Her brain feels like a mosquito trapped in amber, ready to be found in 65 million years by an enterprising paleontologist. Full of anxiety, humor, philosophy, and grief, The Only Living Girl in Chicago is a stunning coming-of-age novel, a later bloomer's bible in constant, dizzying motion.

Mallory Smart is a Chicago-based writer and is the Editor-in-Chief of the publishing house Maudlin House. She also talks about music and literature on the podcase Textual Healing.

ISBN: 978-1-951226-12-1

Pages: 173

Publication: 2021