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An exceptionally lucid and humorous look at life, art, politics, and the state of mind in contemporary America. I am a German-American, a purebred, from a time when German-Americans married only among themselves. When I asked the Anglo-American Jane Marie Cox to marry me in 1945, one of her uncles asked her, "Do you really want to mix with all those Germans?" Even today there is a Mariana Trench between us and Anglo-Americans, but it is getting smaller and smaller. These people without a guilty conscience, who spoke English at work and German at home, not only created successful businesses, mainly in Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Cincinnati, but also their own banks, social clubs, concert halls, restaurants, boarding houses, and summer cottages. All of this made Anglo-Americans wonder, with good reason, I must admit, "Okay, so whose country is this, anyway?"

Kurt Vonnegut