![]() ![]() It’s the story of two women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and a troubled teen with one last chance at redemption. Set in present-day Maine and Depression-era Minnesota, Orphan Train highlights the real-life story of the trains that between 18 carried thousands of abandoned children from the East Coast to the Midwest. And this is kind of touchy-feely, but I hope they are inspired to think about their own lives and relationships. I hope readers come away with some thoughts about the human experience that hadn’t occurred to them before. It’s not until we speak up that we can move past the pain and step forward. I think that the main message of my novel is that shame and secrecy can keep us from becoming our full selves. ![]() Many train riders were ashamed of this part of their past, and carried the secret of it for decades, and sometimes until they died.
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