{"product_id":"9780425253175-a-good-american","title":"A Good American","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A beautifully written novel, laced with history and music.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eA BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverything 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd so began my grandfather’s rapturous love affair with America—an affair that would continue until the day he died.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Good American \u003c\/i\u003etells of Jette’s dogged determination to feed a town sauerkraut \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e soul food; the loves and losses of her children, Joseph and Rosa; and the precocious voices of James and his brothers, sometimes raised in discord…sometimes in perfect harmony. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut above all, \u003ci\u003eA Good American \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57676609487222,"sku":"9780425253175","price":16.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31380078.jpg?v=1776176817","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780425253175-a-good-american","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}