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Democracy has been hollowed out by capitalism. A narrow view of markets and their aims now dominates thinking about democracy itself. Citizens are ignorant of the deep principles of self-governance, having long since adopted a facile equation between democracy and voting as a consumer choice. Lisa Herzog argues that democracy is still possible, but only if democratic values get embedded in everyday experience―including economic experience. That requires new ways of thinking about markets and their goals.

Anyone who has waited in a Christmas line for the Walnut Room's Great Tree can attest that Chicago's loyalty to Marshall Field's is fierce. Dayton-Hudson even had to take out advertising around town to apologize for changing the Field's hallowed green bags. And with good reason—the store and those who ran it shaped the city's streets, subsidized its culture, and heralded its progress. The resulting commercial empire dictated wholesale trade terms in Calcutta and sponsored towns in North Carolina, but its essence was always Chicago.

Elise Montgomery has sleeping beauty syndrome or as her doctors politely informed her three years ago Kleine Levin Syndrome which is another medical way of saying that her life is cursed—Grimm's fairy tale cursed. She now literally has the ability to sleep her life away with eight hour days and sixteen hour nights. Elise is desperately trying to fix her life—put things back in order when E. R. trauma surgeon, Lee Anderson, steps into her world of chaotic dreams and brief sunlight.