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An Imperfect Candidate

Penned By Nao Hauser
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An Imperfect Candidate

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An idealistic law student thinks he knows where good and evil lie--and soon discovers he doesn’t, in this novel about crime and redemption, set in the midst of Chicago politics over a period of 20 years. Just before he begins law school, with his ambitions set on running for office one day, Arthur Gorman marries the daughter of a construction magnate and alleged racketeer, Tolland Shenck. He believes he can follow a political path that will steer clear of Shencks’s corrupt Machine connections. But not long after the wedding and the start of classes, his prospects are cut off when his wife, Harriet, is kidnapped and held for ransom by those he believed shared his ideals. Gorman is forced to drop out of school and restart his life, working in his father’s shoe store. Harriet is gone, having divorced him after her release and moved West. But after years apart, she returns, unwilling to give up forever on the love and ideals they had shared. She insists on going back to the poor neighborhood that had been the scene of the crime and to the community center that had attracted Arthur, as a beginning law student, to its good work and political prospects. On the night of the crime, Harriet had been on her way there to meet him—and the criminals had used this to entrap her. Still, she goes back there, daily, rather than give up what she had once believed in, and so, eventually, does Arthur. When a Machine politician sets out to destroy the community center, Harriet comes up with a way to save it and enlists Tolland Shenck’s collaboration. In this way, Arthur’s onetime political ambition is resurrected when they insist he stick with what he once believed in and run against the Machine. But with his youthful ideals having yielded to harsh reality, Arthur knows his winning depends on his being an imperfect candidate. The character of Tolland Shenck, crook and redeemer, towers over this novel, which begins in the year of Watergate and ends in the hopeful era of Clinton. Nao Hauser lived in Chicago for 14 years, witnessing the politics of the Machine and the Left as well as the urban dynamic of gentrification that underpins An Imperfect Candidate. Her previous novels are Bronoff’s Rules, a comedy about playing the stock market; The Restaurant Reviewer, a drama about lovers, young and old, coming to terms with mortality and what a good man’s life means. set in New York City after 9/11; and The Branding of Wendell Dawes, a comic tale of a serious chef with a failing restaurant learning how to be a hot chef.

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Length 319 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint OMR Press
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Identifier (ISBN) 55207726
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After spending years working in the corporate world, Nao Hauser finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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"Such a rich narrative. The author orchestrated a breathtaking finale. Truly a work of art. An absolute must-read for connoisseurs of the genre."
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Eric Campbell
Eric Campbell August 18, 2025
"I find myself somewhat conflicted. The tempo was somewhat languid, and I found my mind wandering. Not poor, simply average. Perhaps more aligned with a different audience's tastes."
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