| Made in U.S.A. | |
| Author: | Alfred Kern |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Company |
| Release Date: | 1966 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback) |
| Pages: | 369 pp |
| Oclc: | 730054 |
| Preceded By: | The Width of Waters |
| Followed By: | The Trial of Martin Ross |
Made in U.S.A. is a novel by the American writer Alfred Kern.[1]
The story is set in the 1960s in Braden, Pennsylvania, a fictional mill town north of Pittsburgh. Protagonist Steve Hamner is a successful trade unionist for the fictional United Ore and Metal Workers, AFL-CIO. He meets Paula Montefiore, a displaced intellectual from a Kafkaesque Eastern Europe, who is seeking to make a new life in the United States. The two characters confront each other about the meaning of the American dream.[2]