![]() ![]() The lives of these two people (one just seventeen, the other ninety-one) intersect, but that is actually the least interesting part of this novel. In a nutshell, Orphan Train is the story of one such girl.īut it is also the story of another girl, someone who is also without a home and has spent much of her childhood bouncing between foster homes. According to the notes found at the back of the book “between 18, so-called orphan trains transported more than two hundred thousand orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children – many of whom, like the character in this book, were first-generation Irish Catholic immigrants – from the coastal cities of the eastern United States to the Midwest for “adoption,” which often turned out to be indentured servitude.” I was unaware of the history which inspired Christina Kline Baker’s novel Orphan Train. ![]()
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