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An uplifting book about the individuals we create and the places we call home. It is 1904. When Frederick and Jette must flee her disapproving mother, where better to go than America, the land of the new? Actually set to board a sail boat to New York, at the last minute, they take one destined for New Orleans instead ("What's the difference? They're both new.") and later end up, more by chance than by design, in the small town of Beatrice, Missouri. Not speaking a word of British, they attempt their new lease of life jointly. Beatrice is filled with unforgettable character types: a jazz trumpeter from the top Easy who cooks a mean gumbo, a teenage youngster trapped in the torso of a huge, a fairly schoolteacher who helps the young men in town learn about a lot more than just music, a minister who believes he has observed the Second Approaching of Christ, and a malevolent, bicycle-riding dwarf. A Good North american is narrated by Frederick and Jette's grandson, James, who, in telling his ancestors' history, involves realize he doesn't know his own history whatsoever. From bare-knuckle prizefighting and Prohibition to sweet barbershop harmonies, the Kennedy assassination, and beyond, James's family is swept up in the sweep of background. Each new technology discovers afresh what it means to be an American. And, along the way, Frederick and Jette's progeny sometimes discover more about themselves than that they had bargained for. Poignant, funny, and heartbreaking, A Good North american is a book about being an outsider - in your country, in your hometown, or even within your own family. It is a universal history about our search for home.
