About the book: 2020 / Christina Baker Kline is an American writer, author of several novels, as well as works written in the non-fiction genre. The novel Orphan Train (2013), which brought her fame and became a bestseller, is based on real events in American history. From 1854 to 1929, to solve the problem of street children infesting New York and other East Coast cities, orphans were put on trains and sent to the Midwest, where they were matched with foster families. For some of the more than two hundred thousand children cut off from their roots, adoption was a salvation from poverty and hardship, but for others it turned into domestic slavery. The main character of the novel, ninety-year-old Vivian, was a passenger on such a train as a child. It is difficult for her to remember the long past and even more difficult to come to terms with it. And only meeting seventeen-year-old Molly - an orphan, a difficult teenager - helps Vivian finally heal her spiritual wounds. The desire to maintain belonging to their family history, self-esteem, and persistent character surprisingly bring together the two heroines of this exciting and heartfelt novel, which has become a revelation not only for Americans, but also for readers in 30 countries around the world.