![]() ![]() ![]() When the novel begins, Vivian is in her nineties. Kline sets up Vivian’s story retrospectively. ![]() Vivian Daly, in Orphan Train, finds all these things and more. Some, of course, found loving homes, but many more found servitude, brutal living conditions, and unbearable personal anguish. I knew this had occurred, but until I read Christina Baker Kline’s novel, Orphan Train, I had no idea that the operation lasted well into the twentieth century, and I certainly didn’t know that nearly 200,000 orphans were so callously distributed. Orphan Train – From 1859 to 1929, America’s answer for what to do with orphans and indigent children.īeginning in 1854 and continuing for seventy-five years, so-called ‘orphan trains’ transported indigent children from the east coast to adoptive homes in the Midwest. ![]()
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