num_pages: 536
description: When a young girl learns there is more to life than inner city Chicago, a child of Polish immigrants sets out to create her own American dream with one question in mind-what does it take to be extraordinary? Gerda Barker finds art, marries a rock star, and becomes one of few female criminal defense lawyers in Chicago. Along the way she will find if she has what it takes to follow her American dream.
language: English
title: Don't Stand In Line: A Memoir
publisher: Gerda Barker