Whiskey breakfast
Subtitle: my Swedish family, my American life
By: Richard C. Lindberg
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780816646845
Subjects: Family; Childhood and youth; Biography; Swedish Americans
Description: Chicago in the 1920s. Clark Street was the city's last Swedetown, the locus of Swedish community life in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. It represented a way station for a generation of working-class immigrants escaping the hardships of the old country for the promise of a brighter new day. For Lindberg, whose Swedish immigrant parents and grandparents settled there, it was also the staging ground for an intensely personal, multigenerational, coming-of-age drama based on the struggles of two disparate families-- their dreams and their depravities, their victories and their failures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.