Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Christina Baker Kline’s best-selling novel, Orphan Train is among the most popular book club picks in the nation, according to bookmovement.com, a website that tracks trends and provides book ideas for book clubs around the country. Orphan Train is the story of a young Irish immigrant who, as a child, is sent away from New York on a train that regularly transported unwanted and abandoned children from the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest. Moving between contemporary Maine and Depression-era Minnesota, Orphan Train is a powerful tale of upheaval and resilience. The novel (which is the authors fifth work of fiction) was selected as a Target book club pick, has held steady on 5 national bestseller lists, and has just gone to print for the fifth time. Orphan Train makes a terrific Common Reads Selection, and Christina is a terrific presenter.
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