Don't Stand In Line: a memoir by Gerda Barker [Paperback]

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.