＜p＞＜strong＞“A beautifully written novel, laced with history and music.” ーEmily St. John Mandel, author of ＜em＞Station Eleven＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞**A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR＜br /＞ A BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Everything he’d seen had been unimaginably different from the dry, dour streets of home, and to his surprise he was not sorry in the slightest. He was smitten by the beguiling otherness of it all.＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞And so began my grandfather’s rapturous love affair with Americaーan affair that would continue until the day he died.＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is the story of the Meisenheimer family, told by James, a third-generation American living in Beatrice, Missouri. It’s where his German grandparentsーFrederick and Jetteーfound themselves after journeying across the turbulent Atlantic, fording the flood-swollen Mississippi, and being brought to a sudden halt by the broken water of the pregnant Jette.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞A Good American＜/em＞ tells of Jette’s dogged determination to feed a town sauerkraut ＜em＞and＜/em＞ soul food; the loves and losses of her children, Joseph and Rosa; and the precocious voices of James and his brothers, sometimes raised in discord…sometimes in perfect harmony.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But above all, ＜em＞A Good American＜/em＞ is about the music in Frederick’s heart, a song that began as an aria, was jazzed by ragtime, and became an anthem of love for his adopted country that the family still hears to this day.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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