Betsy Carter, Author . Hyperion $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6761-5
In her first book, Carter, the founding editor of New York Woman
and current editor of My Generation, offers a refreshingly upbeat chronicle that covers the traditional memoir fare of life after divorce, surviving breast cancer and recovering from...
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Betsy Carter, Author . Algonquin $23.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-56512-449-3
The title of Carter's sympathetic if somewhat contrived debut novel (she's the author of a memoir, Nothing to Fall Back On
) refers to the first New York–to–Miami passenger train, a not-so-subtle metaphor for the American dream...
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Betsy Carter, Author . Algonquin $23.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-56512-492-9
Carter follows her plucky New York journalist's memoir Nothing to Fall Back On
and first novel The Orange Blossom Special
with another sweet story of self-reinvention. Delores Walker, 17, leaves her troubled home in the Bronx of 1973 to...
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Betsy Carter, Author . Algonquin $23.95 (344p) ISBN 978-1-56512-594-0
Carter (Swim to Me
) mines her family history in this underwhelming novel that examines the lives and loves of Jewish immigrants in early 20th-century New York. Nine-year-old Simon Phelps is sent by his mother from Lithuania to America, where he...
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Betsy Carter. Grand Central, $27 (326p) ISBN 978-1-5387-6391-9
Carter (We Were Strangers Once) crafts an endearing, sweeping saga of strangers brought together. In three parts, spanning from 1929 to the early 1980s, Carter weaves the tangled web of her characters in fine, poetic detail. She begins in New...
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