When We Were Strangers

"The people as real as your own family, and the tale realistic enough to be any American's."
--Nancy E. Turner, author of These is My Words

A moving, powerful, and evocative debut novel, When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt heralds the arrival of superb new voice in American fiction. A tale rich in color, character, and vivid historical detail, it chronicles the tumultuous life journey of a young immigrant seamstress, as she travels from her isolated Italian mountain village through the dark corners of late nineteenth century America. A historical novel that readers of Geraldine Brooks, Nancy Turner, Frances de Pontes Peebles, and Debra Dean will most certainly cherish, When We Were Strangers will live in the mind and the heart long after its last page is turned.

Author: Pamela Schoenewaldt
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 01/25/2011
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.38w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780062003997

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/11/2010 pg. 23
Booklist 12/01/2010 pg. 34

About the Author
Schoenewaldt, Pamela: -

Pamela Schoenewaldt is the USA Today bestselling author of When We Were Strangers and Swimming in the Moon. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines in England, France, Italy, and the United States. She taught writing for the University of Maryland, European Division, and the University of Tennessee.