
Orphan Train
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
Available in a special hardcover edition, Christina Baker Kline's smash bestseller, a captivating historical novel that is "a lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of American history" (Ann Packer).
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood and adolescence of hard labor and servitude?
As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was one such child, sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. Returning east later in life, Vivian leads a quiet, peaceful existence on the coast of Maine, the memories of her upbringing rendered a hazy blur. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past.
Seventeen-year-old Molly Ayer knows that a community-service position helping an elderly widow clean out her attic is the only thing keeping her out of juvenile hall. But as Molly helps Vivian sort through her keepsakes and possessions, she discovers that she and Vivian aren't as different as they appear, forging an unlikely intergenerational friendship. A Penobscot Indian who has spent her youth in and out of foster homes, Molly is also an outsider being raised by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past.
Told in a compelling dual timeline moving between contemporary Maine and Depression-era Minnesota, Orphan Train is a powerful tale of upheaval and resilience, second chances, and unexpected friendship.
This hardcover edition of Orphan Train will feature a deckled edge.
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Christina Baker Kline is the author of ten novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Orphan Train, The Exiles, and A Piece of the World. Her novels have received the New England Society Book Award for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and several bookseller awards, among other prizes. Born in England, she was raised in the American South and Maine. She lives in New York City and in Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- New York City, 1929
- New York City, 1929
- New York Central Train, 1929
- Union Station, Chicago, 1929
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- The Milwaukee Train, 1929
- Milwaukee Road Depot, Minneapolis, 1929
- Albans, Minnesota, 1929
- Albans, Minnesota, 1929
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Albans, Minnesota, 1929
- Albans, Minnesota, 1929-1930
- Hemingford County, Minnesota, 1930
- Hemingford County, Minnesota, 1930
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Hemingford County, Minnesota, 1930
- Hemingford County, Minnesota, 1930
- Hemingford County, Minnesota, 1930
- Hemingford, Minnesota, 1930
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Hemingford, Minnesota, 1930
- Hemingford, Minnesota, 1930
- Hemingford, Minnesota, 1930-1931
- Hemingford, Minnesota, 1935-1939
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1939
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1939
- Hemingford, Minnesota, 1940-1943
- Hemingford, Minnesota, 1943
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Spruce Harbor, Maine, 2011
- Acknowledgments
- An Excerpt from The Exiles
- Prologue
- Part I: Evangeline
- St. John's Wood, London, 1840
- P.S. Insights, Interviews & More . . .*
- About the Author
- About the Book
- Praise
- Also by Christina Baker Kline
- Back Ads
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
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