Synopsis for The Editor’s Wife

Born on the wrong side of the tracks on Chicago’s Southwest Side, Frances Marian (Dragolovich) Colgan is driven to succeed. With her crafty father-in-law for a teacher, F.M. uses her wiles and looks to climb to the ropes of the politics in post-World War II Illinois.

Author Nowlan weaves a tapestry as rich and colorful as F.M. herself. The author includes an interracial affair in a small town in the 1950s, alliances with lieutenants in the Chicago Mob, infidelities to a loving husband, and more.

The Editor’s Wife draws upon real people, events, and social change from World War II through the tumultuous Vietnam Era to tell the story of a generation that lost its innocence in the pursuit of something more, whatever that proved to be.

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