"The Meisenheimer family struggles to find its place among the colorful residents of its new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf."
"Wel en wee van een Duitse emigrantenfamilie die begin 20e eeuw een bestaan opbouwt in Missouri, mede tegen de achtergrond van de gebeurtenissen uit de Amerikaanse geschiedenis."
"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 - Frederick and Jette - found themselves after journeying across the turbulent Atlantic, fording the flood-swollen Mississippi, and being brought to a sudden halt by the broken waters of the pregnant Jette. 'The Good American' tells of Jette's dogged determination to feed a town sauerkraut and soul food; the loves and losses of their children, Joseph and Rosa; and the precocious."@en
"The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf."@en
"The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf."