American heaven
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Maxine Chernoff.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781566890410
Subjects: Polish Americans -- Fiction; Grandfathers -- Fiction; Gangsters -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
Description: The friendship of two women who meet in the laundry room of an apartment building in Chicago. One is Irena, a Polish mathematician who emigrated to the U.S. and is caring for an old jazz musician, the other is Elizabeth from New England who is caring for a sick gangster.
Notes: Also issued online.