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# Orphan Train MP3 CD – Audiobook, April 8, 2014

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Good read, well written
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2023*

I’m not a big fiction guy but really enjoyed this read. Well written story that bounced back and forth between present day and early to mid 1900’s with some good life lessons. I will continue to read more of her books.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Beautifully written, often heart-wrenching life story of an orphan immigrant child, who at 91, bonds with a current orphan teen
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2015*

I decided to read Orphan Train to learn about another ethnic group's immigration experience, as opposed to my Jewish background learned from my grandmother and additional study. Learn, I did as Orphan Train was not what I expected. At times, it was hard to take.There are actually two or three stories in one. Two orphan stories generations apart with some similarities -- “mean mother figures” and passive, mediating “father figures” -- but stark differences. Though, a novel, it is based on historical situations. Author Christina Baker Kline did extensive research and the book is well written.In 2011 Maine, 17-year old Molly, a Penobscot Indian, has been bouncing from foster home to foster home, from school to school, and in and out of trouble. She is caught stealing a poor condition copy of Jane Eyre from the library. Her boyfriend, Jack, says his mother, Terry, is a housekeeper for a 91-year old woman, who needs her attic cleared out. Jack suggests Molly do community service hours helping Vivian clean the attic, thereby avoiding juvie.As the boxes are opened and artifacts looked at, we go back to 1929, when Vivian was nine-year old Niamh Power. Her family emigrated from Ireland to the tenements of New York. Her father continues to be a drunkard; her mother, though she has taught Niamh to sew and mend, is depressed. Niamh takes care of her siblings, mainly baby sister, Maise. A fire leaves Niamh (believed to be) the lone survivor from the family.Now, she finds herself on the “orphan train” run by the Christian Children’s Aid Society. At age 12, my grandmother was the oldest of four orphans that emigrated to New York in 1922. It is fortunate there was a stepsister and her husband here. Otherwise, who knows what might have happened?The train headed west and at different stops the orphans would be marched off and paraded before prospective “parents.” Those not selected would move on to the next stop and the next. Niamh takes care of a baby, Carmine, along the way. When 12-year old Dutchy misbehaves, he is placed in the seat next to Niamh.She is the last of them to be taken, by the Byrnes in Albans, Minnesota. Mrs. Byrne has no intention of making this a family, but changes Niamh’s name to Dorothy by the time they reach the house. In the living room are women and young girls involved in different processes of making clothes. The sweatshop reached Minnesota. Though, the “families” are obligated to send the orphans to school, Mrs. Byrne does not send Dorothy. Like in The Help, the workers must use the outhouse in the yard. Dorothy eats dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Byrne -- he is nicer -- but Dorothy must do the cleaning. Of course, she is not being paid for any of this work. She also sleeps on a cot in the hallway. Remember, she is nine.When the stock market crashes, Mrs. Byrne slowly fires the workers. With Dorothy, she has an out. In comes Mr. Sorenson from Children’s Aid, who drives Dorothy to the Grote’s farm in Heminford County, Minnesota. Flip a coin to see which situation is worse. The Grotes live in a ramshackle house. There are four children. Mrs. Grote doesn’t leave her bed. Mr. Grote doesn’t believe in work so spends most days hunting for food. He doesn’t believe in education, but since he is obligated to send Dorothy, she goes, offering her some respite. Again, she is expected to do the work of a mother, cooking and taking care of the children.What strikes one is there was no way of screening the families when the children are being transported across the country to unknown venues. Seeing “older” boys and girls as free labor rather than children in the family was not uncommon. From 1854-1929, 200,000 children rode the orphan trains. Molly was also in a situation  with a mean “mother” and passive, mediating “father,” but it was nowhere near what Niamh/Dorothy went through. These days, with adoptions, there are interviews and home visits. Mr. Sorenson had never visited the Grotes and still left Dorothy there.Eventually, Mrs. Grote tosses Dorothy out in the cold and snow. She makes her way to school. Her teacher, Miss Larsen, takes Dorothy to the women’s rooming house where she lives. The owner, Mrs. Murphy, agrees to take Dorothy in temporarily. For the first time in her life, Dorothy has her own room. Mrs. Murphy learns that the Nielsens, owners of the general store, are looking for help. When the Nielsens visit to meet Dorothy, they say she will be paid an hourly wage to work in the store and will go to the nearby school. Stability comes to her life and eventually, the Nielsens ask if she would mind taking the name of their daughter, who died when she was six -- Vivian. As the years go by, she contributes mightily to the expansion of the store and its success.The history ends around 1943 and we are left wondering what happened between then and 2011. The book alternates between Molly’s home situation and relationship with Vivian in 2011, and Vivian’s early life. Vivian’s story takes on more meaning when Molly has to do a “portaging” assignment for school, “when one leaves home, what does one take with them and what does one leave behind?” Vivian becomes her natural subject. No longer does Molly see visiting Vivian as community service hours.In turn, she begins to open up a whole new world to Vivian, of computers, the Internet and Facebook, leading to a very special ending.An underlying idea is things happen for a reason. If A didn’t happen, then B wouldn’t have happened and C wouldn’t have happened. Even the bad events had to happen in order for the good to happen. Many "orphan train children" were successful. That may have enabled many of these “orphan train children" to survive, but I don’t wish these things to happen to them.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    a great storyteller
  

*by M***H on Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2023*

‘Orphan Train’ has been around for several years, and the story is well told by other reviewers. I too, had no idea that this method of distributing unwanted children was in our history. Niamh/Dorothy/Vivian, an immigrant Irish girl is thrust into this system when her parents and siblings are killed in a house fire. The story of her life is paralleled with the story of Molly, a 17-year-old in the foster care system in 2011. The foster care system is a frequent target of books. An imperfect system that needs to be refined and updated desperately. The elephant in the room is that there is no emotional attachment with many foster children, so that when they rebel or screw up it is easy for the ‘parent’ to say “Get out. I don’t want you anymore.” But this system, for all of its problems, is still better than the orphanage system, its predecessor, and a player in this tale. In that system the child was often beaten for infractions much less significant than rebellion. They often had to run away to survive. I thought the characters were not at all shallow or one dimensional. The Byrnes’ were terrible, looking for cheap labor. The Grote’s were even worse, by far. They were in over their head and the husband even admitted that he didn’t know what else to do except to take in Dorothy.Baker-Kline is a great storyteller. She weaves the two story arcs expertly. The ending is satisfying, maybe a little rushed, but I wanted the book to go on for a while longer. Thus, a tiny smudge of disappointment. The author’s moral is hard to miss, that the hardships that we endure help to mold us into who we will become.

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