Lovers Dreamers & Thieves

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>With a novelist's eye for detail and a poet's gift for language Cebulska has written a visceral knockout of a memoir packed with vibrant unforgettable family members and unexpected happenings. Cebulska is a brilliant big-hearted and luminous storyteller who can capture a world in a short vignette. I was entirely captivated by these intimate and moving family portraits that have shaped the author's life and work. </span></p><p class=ql-align-right><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Harriet Lerner</strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> author of </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Dance of Anger</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Why Won't You Apologize?</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This memoir is at once funny and poignant wide-ranging and laser-focused personal and universal. Cebulska weaves memories family stories and local history with deftness and reverence creating a memoir that is both fun to read and profound. </span></p><p class=ql-align-right><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Charles Anthony Silvestri </strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>poet lyricist author of </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A Silver Thread</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>  </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Marcia Cebulska's account of life in Chicago's Polish community is both moving and important. Polish Americans in Chicago are often referenced but have not often told their own story. </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Lovers Dreamers and Thieves</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> captures both the joys and the sorrow of the immigrant/ethnic experience in the Windy City. It is a must read for anyone interested in Chicago and its diverse people.</span></p><p class=ql-align-right><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Dominic A. Pacyga </strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Author of </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>American Warsaw:</em></p><p class=ql-align-right><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Rise Fall and Rebirth of Polish Chicago.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>  </em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Marcia Cebulska in </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Lovers Dreamers & Thieves</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> transforms the stories of her life into fabulous folk tales full of fantastic and fantastical lore focusing on everything from the holy (a youthful interest in becoming a nun) to the earthly and earthy (her great-grandmother was a blacksmith) to the wholly bizarre (her grandfather produced fake weddings) and shocking (her uncle's connection to the mob and father's arrest). This collection elevates the commonplace book far above and beyond the common up past the luminiferous ether settling in the realm of legends that couldn't possibly be true right? Oh but they are. Now listen... </span></p><p class=ql-align-right><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Andrew Farkas </strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Author of </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Great Indoorsman: Essays</em></p><p class=ql-align-right><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Big Red Herring </em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>and</span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Sunsphere</em></p>