My Father’s Home

Within the 12 months 1910, at age twenty, Karl Artur Johan Gustafsson leaves Sweden to comply with his older siblings to America. Renamed “Carl Arthur Gustafson” at Ellis Island, he begins a brand new life in Forestville/Bristol Connecticut the place he falls in love with and marries Jennie Anderson. Collectively they construct their “home,” guiding their household by the quickly altering occasions of the twentieth century. On this multi-layered, multiple-generational story, their third youngster takes her readers on a journey by WWI, the Nice Melancholy, WWII, altering applied sciences, altering roles, and the tumultuous sixties and seventies.