A Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Doubleday Book Club, and Literary GuildNominated for the Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Prize The year is 1958, and young widow Tess Lockhart has taken her thirteen-year-old daughter and moved to Florida in search of a kinder climate and a new beginning. In her fiction debut, Betsy Carter, author of the bestselling memoir Nothing to Fall Back On, perfectly captures both the innocence of the 1950s and the startling and irreversible changes of the 1960s.  Available only in Americana 4 & 5.

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Literature & Fiction

Betsy Carter

Contemporary

Thorndike Press

[Read by Suzanne Toren]For readers of The Nightingale and Brooklyn, an exquisitely moving novel about friendship, love, and redemption in a circle of immigrants who flee Europe for 1930s-era New York City.On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider -- a gallant and successful Jewish doctor, son of two world-famous naturalists -- escapes Germany to an uncertain future across the sea. Settling into the unfamiliar rhythms of upper Manhattan, he finds solace among a tight-knit group of fellow immigrants, tenacious men and women drawn together as much by their differences as by their memories of the world they left behind.They each suffer degradations and triumphs large and small: Egon's terminally acerbic lifelong friend, bestselling author Meyer Leavitt, now wears a sandwich board on a New York street corner; Catrina Harty, the headstrong daughter of a dirt-poor Irish trolley driver, survives heartbreak and loss to forge an unlikely alliance; and Egon himself is forced to abandon his thriving medical practice to become the ''Cheese Man'' at a Washington Heights grocery. But their spirits remain unbroken, and when their little community is faced with an existential threat, these strangers rise up together in hopes of creating a permanent home. With her uncanny ability to create indelible characters in unforgettable circumstances, Betsy Carter has crafted a gorgeous novel that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt adrift and longed for home.

We Were Strangers Once

Literary

Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio

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