Orphan Train

Author: Christina Baker Kline

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence lead….Read More

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