SING TO ME, PAPA

About the Book

Gretchen Mueller´s chronicle begins in the present in her Southern California garden with her granddaughter, Megan, and flashes back to Chicago in the late thirties.

The Muellers are a happy family then and Papa (Gerhard) sings and tells stories of his boyhood in Furth im Wald, in eastern Germany, and also of his admiration for Adolf Hitler.

During WWII U. S. authorities cannot tolerate Papa´s allegiance to Germany and Gretchen´s happy life becomes a series of painful changes and adjustments—she is a German in America and an American in Germany.

Through the years, adversities are overcome with the help of new friends, neighbors and a tender reconciliation.

About the Author

Patricia McCune Irvine attended schools in Pasadena, California and graduated from UCLA with a degree in elementary education. She taught in San Gabriel for a number of years and had a second career as Food Editor for The Pasadena Independent, Star-News. Patricia and her late husband traveled extensively and she now resides in Pasadena.