Three Books by Betsy Carter
Requirements: ePUB/Mobi Reader, 7.27 MB
Overview: Betsy Carter lives in NYC and writes for O: The Oprah magazine, Good Housekeeping, New York, Glamour and Hallmark, among others. She is the author of three novels and a memoir.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
Swim to Me – More at home in the water than in the company of her own family, a young woman fulfills her unlikely dream of becoming a mermaid. Welcome to Weeki Wachee Springs, located on the beautiful Gulf Coast of Florida. Hailed as the City of Live Mermaids, the fabled Springs has been attracting tourists since 1947, but as of late, business is drying up. As if paying the bills, making constant repairs, and playing den mother and swim coach to a bunch of wayward teenage girls wearing fish tails isn’t enough, Miss Thelma Foote now has to find a way to compete with the newly opened Walt Disney Resort and keep Weeki Wachee and its school of mermaids afloat. It’s a fresh start for Delores Walker when she steps off the bus in Tampa to become a minimum-wage mermaid. The family fights, the father who walked out on her, and the dingy Bronx apartment are a thousand miles behind her. With her arrival at Weeki Wachee, luck seems to change for everyone.
In the tradition of Rebecca Wells, Betsy Carter writes of family and sisterhood, of chasing dreams, and of finding your way as she conjures up a time in America when anything was possible– even mermaids from the Bronx.
The Orange Blossom Special – When we first meet Tessie Lockhart in 1958, she is pinning her hair into a French twist, dabbing Jean Nate on her wrists, and getting ready to change her life. This widowed mother of a thirteen-year-old has decided it’s time for a fresh start for both of them, time to leave behind Carbondale, Illinois, and the pain of loss. Tessie and her daughter move to Gainesville, Florida, where they discover that they aren’t the only ones struggling to move forward in the wake of tremendous grief. Betsy Carter has perfectly captured both the innocence of the 1950s, when even the complex events of our lives seemed somehow easier to endure, and the startling and irreversible changes of the 1960s. A story about the relationships people develop in the face of loss, "The Orange Blossom Special" introduces us to a remarkable cast of characters, all of whom are tested-and transformed-by the changes in their midst. In her own touching and funny style, Carter shows us the unexpected ways in which strangers can become family.
The Puzzle King – 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 Hitler’s Germany. This is the story of unlikely heroes, the lively, beautiful Flora and her husband, the brooding, studious Simon, two Jewish immigrants who were each sent to America by their families to find better lives. An improbable match, they meet in New York City and fall in love. Simon—inventor of the jigsaw puzzle—eventually makes his fortune. Now wealthy, but still outsiders, Flora and Simon become obsessed with rescuing the loved ones they left behind in Europe whose fates are determined by growing anti-Semitism on both sides of the Atlantic. Inspired by her family’s legends, Betsy Carter weaves a memorable tale. In the tradition of Suite Française or Amy Bloom’s Away, she explores a fascinating moment in history and creates a cast of characters who endure with dignity, grace, and hope for the future.
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