Nancy Dybek Greene is a native Chicagoan who loves her hometown as much as the “God’s country” she talks about in her first book, “Road of the Piasa.”
In her second book, “Bar Kee...view moreNancy Dybek Greene is a native Chicagoan who loves her hometown as much as the “God’s country” she talks about in her first book, “Road of the Piasa.”
In her second book, “Bar Keep,” her joyful and comical account of a young girl’s trials and tribulations in adjusting to big-city life amidst a backdrop of graduate school duties and working in an off-campus bar, are perplexing and hilarious.
Nancy spent twenty years in the field in archaeology in the very rural corn belt of Illinois, as described in the setting of her first book. This second book shows her love for this city, which is three generations home to her family.view less