Title: American heaven
Subtitle: a novel
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Gangsters, Grandfathers, Polish Americans, Polish americans, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Women
Places: Chicago (Ill.)