โ Bouma, J A
๐ Fiction
๐
2018
๐ EmmausWay Press
๐ English
โ 179 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
A Good American
โ Scribed by Alex George
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US;Berkley Publishing
- Year
- 2012;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Edition
- Berkley trade paperback edtion
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1101559896
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
**_A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Everything he'd seen had been unimaginably different from the dry, dour streets of home, and to his surprise he was not sorry in the slightest. He was smitten by the beguiling otherness of it all._**
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And so began my grandfather's rapturous love affair with America --an affair that would continue until the day he died.
This is the story of the Meisenheimer family, told by James, a third-generation American living in Beatrice, Missouri. It's where his German grandparents--Frederick and Jette--found themselves after journeying across the turbulent Atlantic, fording the flood-swollen Mississippi, and being brought to a sudden halt by the broken water of the pregnant Jette.
A Good American tells of Jette's dogged determination to feed a town sauerkraut and soul food; the loves and losses of her...
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