{"product_id":"a-good-american-isbn-9780425253175","title":"A Good American","description":"\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\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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“There’s plenty of storytelling charm on display here, with echoes of John Irving’s humane zaniness.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What does it mean to be a good citizen? A good member of a family? In \u003ci\u003eA Good American\u003c\/i\u003e, George considers both questions with humor, compassion, and grace. A beautifully written novel, laced with history and music.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This lush, epic tale of one family’s journey from immigrants to good Americans had me alternately laughing and crying, but always riveted. It’s a rich, rare treat of a book, and Alex George is a first-rate talent.” —Sara Gruen, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWater for Elephants \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Ape House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"As epic as an opera, as intimate as a lullaby, \u003ci\u003eA Good American\u003c\/i\u003e swept me through an entire century of triumph and tragedy with the wonderful Meisenheimer family...Alex George has created that rare and beautiful thing—a novel I finished and immediately wanted to start again.\"—Eleanor Brown, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Weird Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A sweeping, lush intergenerational novel about a family…learning to live in twentieth-century America.”—\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex George \u003c\/b\u003eis an Englishman who lives, works, and writes in the middle of America. He studied law at Oxford University and worked for eight years as a corporate lawyer in London and Paris before moving to the United States in 2003.","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304790118629,"sku":"NP9780425253175","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780425253175.jpg?v=1767720498","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-good-american-isbn-9780425253175","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}