Alex George

A sentimental, lively, and sad family saga spanning four generations

A sweeping, lush intergenerational novel about a family of German-Americans learning to live in 20th-century America

There's plenty of storytelling charm on display here, with echoes of John Irving's humane zaniness

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 waters 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 children, Joseph and Rosa; and the precocious voices of James and his brothers, sometimes raised in perfect harmony . . . sometimes in discord. 
 
But above all, A Good American is about the music in Frederick's heart, a song that began as an aria, was jazzed by ragtime, and became an anthem of love for his adopted country that the family still hears to this day.

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A sentimental, lively, and sad family saga spanning four generations

Epic, lyrical, compelling

A sweeping, lush intergenerational novel about a family of German-Americans learning to live in 20th-century America

A sentimental, lively, and sad family saga spanning four generations

Epic, lyrical, compelling

A sweeping, lush intergenerational novel about a family of German-Americans learning to live in 20th-century America

A sentimental, lively, and sad family saga spanning four generations

Epic, lyrical, compelling

A sweeping, lush intergenerational novel about a family of German-Americans learning to live in 20th-century America

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