Join the Swedish American Museum in hosting a discussion about Chicago author Richard Lindberg’s latest book, The Whiskey Breakfast: My Swedish Family, My American Life, on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. Lindberg is a well-known speaker, historian and the author of 15 books about Chicago history.

The Whiskey Breakfast: My Swedish Family, My American Life is Chicago author Richard Lindberg’s captivating tale of life as a first generation “Baby Boom” Swedish-American, caught between the customs of a land he had never been to and the desire to conform and fit into a troubled existence. Masterfully blending memoir with immigrant history, The Whiskey Breakfast surrounds Lindberg’s family story with Swedish cultural history and politics, as well as remarkable episodes of Chicago history seen through the prism of memory of his forebears–the 1915 capsizing of the Eastaland in the Chicago river; building “catalog houses” for Sears Roebuck & Co. during the firm’s most formative years; Cold War witch hunts; and how Clark Street and Swedetown became, and in many ways remains, a center of social and cultural life for past generations of Scandinavian immigrant people.

This is a free event, reservations are recommended.