Betsy Carter

We Were Strangers Once

Grand Central

In We Were Strangers Once, Betsy Carter crafts an exquisitely moving tale about friendship, love, and redemption in a circle of immigrants who flee Europe for 1930s-era New York City. The daughter of German immigrants, Betsy Carter is the author of the novels Swim to Me and The Puzzle King, as well as her memoir, Nothing to Fall Back On. She was the creator and editor of New York Woman Magazine, and has worked for Newsweek, Harper’s Bazaar and Esquire.