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For listeners of The Nightingale and Brooklyn, an exquisitely moving novel about companionship, love, and redemption in a group of immigrants who flee Europe for 1930s-period New York City. Around the eve of World Conflict 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 in to the unfamiliar rhythms of upper Manhattan, he finds solace among a tight-knit group of fellow immigrants, tenacious men and women drawn together just as much by their differences as by their memory of the world they left out. They each undergo degradations and triumphs large and small: Egon's terminally acerbic lifelong friend, best-selling writer Meyer Leavitt, now wears a sandwich panel on a fresh York street nook; Catrina Harty, the headstrong daughter of a dirt-poor Irish trolley driver, survives heartbreak and reduction to forge an improbable alliance; and Egon himself is required to reject his growing medical practice to become the "Cheese Man" at a Washington Heights grocery store. But their spirits remain unbroken, so when their little community is confronted with an existential threat, these strangers rise up together hoping of creating a permanent home. With her uncanny capability to create indelible character types in unforgettable circumstances, Betsy Carter has constructed a gorgeous novel that will resonate with whoever has ever believed adrift and longed for home.

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