When We Were Strangers

<p>The people as real as your own family and the tale realistic enough to be any American's.<br />--Nancy E. Turner author of <em>These is My Words<p></p></em></p> <p> </p></p>A moving powerful and evocative debut novel <em>When We Were Strangers </em>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 <em>When We Were Strangers</em> will live in the mind and the heart long after its last page is turned.