Bill Hillmann's latest novel is "White Flight"

In Bill Hillmann’s new novel “White Flight” (Tortoise Books), you will encounter a story of substance and style, power and passion. Like much of Hillmann’s writing, it is autobiographical, real-life infused with creative imagination. It tells of a family in the 1990s moving from Rogers Park to La Grange and later Brookfield. It is peppered by excitement and trouble, focused on Joe Walsh (based on Hillmann), a sister suffering a gunshot wound, a brother back to his old bad ways after being released from prison, boxing success and derailed dreams of the Olympics, the power of love and dreams and the fragility of hope.

If you are unfamiliar with Hillmann and his previous work — his first novel, 2014’s “The Old Neighborhood,” a 2015 non-fiction titled “Mozos: A Decade Running With the Bulls o