Before Emily Gray Tedrowe wrote her first novel, she’d built a following with her short stories. Now the Chicago-based author’s fiction has been published in numerous journals, and she’s the winner of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. For WBEZ, Book Critic Donna Seaman reviews her novel, Commuters.

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