Don't Stand In Line - A Memoir

When a young girl learns there is more to life than inner city Chicago, a child of Polish immigrants sets out to create her own American dream with one question in mind-what does it take to be extraordinary?
Gerda Barker finds art, marries a rock star, and becomes one of few female criminal defense lawyers in Chicago.
Along the way she will find if she has what it takes to follow her American dream.

About the author

Gerda Barker is an American writer, editor, former criminal defense lawyer and wife of a rock star. As a child of Polish immigrants in inner city Chicago, she discovered the world of art and music was vital to her American dream. Wax Trax Records hired her, the criminal defense bar welcomed her, and she witnessed firsthand as Chicago became a hub and birthplace for industrial rock music.

Product details

• Authors: Gerda Barker
• Publisher: Gerda Barker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9798985196405
• ISBN: 979-8-9851964-0-5
• No. of pages: 536
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 767 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs