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Orphan Train
Author: Christina Baker Kline
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ISBN: 9780061950728
Format: Paperback
Published: January 2015
Published By: Harper Collins
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Published: January 2015
Published By: Harper Collins
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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 labour 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 in hazy blur. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past.