Title: Whiskey breakfast
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.
Subjects: Family, Childhood and youth, Biography, Swedish Americans, Illinois, biography, Authors, biography
Places: Chicago (Ill.), Chicago, Illinois
People: Lindbergh family, Richard Lindberg (1953-)