<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</em></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.