Agent: Beth Vesel, the Beth Vesel Literary Agency. The growth from instinct to conscious understanding to partnership between the two is the foundation for a moving tale. Kline lets us live the characters’ experiences vividly through their skin, and even the use of present tense, which could distract, feels suited to this tale. The 1 New York Times Bestseller Now featuring a sneak peek at. Chapters alternate between Vivian’s struggle to find a safe home, both physically and emotionally, in early 20th-century Minnesota, and Molly’s similar struggle in modern-day Maine. Lees Orphan Train A Novel door Christina Baker Kline verkrijgbaar bij Rakuten Kobo. The growing connection leads Molly to dig deeper into Vivian’s life, which allows Molly to discover her own potential and helps Vivian rediscover someone she believed had been lost to her forever. Molly learns that Vivian was herself an orphan, an Irish immigrant in New York who was put on the Orphan Train in the late 1920s and tossed from home to home in Minnesota. When she’s caught stealing a copy of Jane Eyre from the library, in an effort to keep the peace with her stressed foster parents, she ends up cleaning out elderly Vivian Daly’s attic. Seventeen-year-old Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer has spent most of her life in foster care. Kline’s absorbing new novel (after Bird in the Hand) is a heartfelt page-turner about two women finding a sense of home.
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