Chicago

Acclaimed Chicago novelist Rebecca Makkai joins The Walking Tree’s Travel with a Writer series with a new literary work in which Chicago itself takes center stage—its neighborhoods, divisions, and hidden connections shaping the story at every turn.

In Travel with a Writer, The Walking Tree invites acclaimed authors to guide readers through the places that have shaped them, combining narrative insight with curated walking itineraries and cultural recommendations to create a new kind of guide—one rooted in experience, attention, and discovery.