Swedish author Maria Bouroncle will join the University of Michigan for the 2024 Signe Karlström Lecture on November 19 to talk about her latest novel Chicago Dreams: The Story of a Young Immigrant.
Chicago Dreams unfolds the journey of 23-year-old Elsa who is dreaming about a new life in America. A life where women are permitted to be independent and free. In September 1921, she boards the steamship Drottningholm in the Swedish port of Gothenburg with 25 dollars in her pocket ....
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