Here’s a novel you can settle into based on the real life story of Simon Phelps, inventor of the mass produced jigsaw puzzle. At the end of the 19th century, Flora and Seema Grossman arrive in America to start their lives anew. The same is true for Simon Phelps. All three children land in the hustle and bustle of New York and carve out lives for themselves. Flora and Simon fall in love, marry and create a life in the fabric of America, while Seema remains restless and single.

Though they have good lives and are content, all three still miss family members living in Europe, unable to leave. As WWII looms large, they finally find a way to assist and aid their extended family to leave Germany before they no longer can.

Betsy Carter has written this novel with warmth and understanding for the characters as they struggle to define and improve their lives in America through the roaring twenties, Great Depression and start of WWII.

Marilyn S.

The Puzzle King (Hardcover)

By Betsy Carter

$23.95

ISBN-13: 9781565125940
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 8/2009

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