When we first meet Tessie Lockhart in 1958, she is pinning her hair into a French twist, dabbing Jean Nat? on her wrists, and getting ready to change her life. This widowed mother of a thirteen-year-
It's a fresh start for Delores Walker when she boards a Greyhound bus bound for Florida. Leaving the Bronx far behind, she's headed for sunny Weeki Wachee Springs, a frayed roadside attraction in dan
On a gray morning in 1936, Flora Phelps stands in line at the American consulate in Stuttgart, Germany. She carries a gift for the consul, whom she will bribe in order to help her family get out of H
For readers of Colm Toibin's Brooklyn and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, an exquisitely moving novel about a circle of German Jewish immigrants who, on the eve of World War II, are shoved across th
Sometimes to be who you really are, you haveto pretend you’re already who you want to be.At two, Delores’s mother dropped her into the shallow end of a lake, trusting instinct would teach her daughter
Flora, a beautiful immigrant, and her puzzle making husband find wealth in America, but feel powerless to save their Jewish family members in Germany as World War II approaches.
"Carter's warm and beautiful prose brings us love, tragedy, mystery and hope in a moving celebration of America and the people who have come to it."--Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of Lu
Carbondale, Illinois. 1958. For widowed Tessie Lockhart, booking two seats on a passenger train to Florida symbolizes a fresh start, far from her memories of love and loss. For Tessie’s teenage daught
