A Hidden Adoption Story: Novelist Christina Baker Kline at Words Bookstore Tonight

Here in Maplewood-South Orange, we’re attuned to the challenges and delights of adoption and adoptive families. Tonight, Friday, May 31^st, author Christina Baker Kline will read from and discuss her novel, Orphan Train at Words Bookstore, which casts you back to a very different era.  Then, young orphans were scooped up from the streets of New York City, shuttled off on trains to families in the Midwest, where they were often treated as no better than indentured servants.  Orphan Train is the perilous and moving story of one such woman’s journey and a contemporary young girl—herself a foster child—who unlocks this hidden tale.

Please join us at 7:30 at our fabulous Words Bookstore to hear from this bestselling novel, and get a glimpse into this fascinating slice of history.  Wine and cheese reception with the author after.  Learn more at www.christinabakerkline.com

--“In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present.  Kline reminds us that we never really lose anyone or anything or, perhaps most important, ourselves.”

--Ann Hood, NYT bestselling author of The Knitting Circle

“A lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of American history. Beautiful.”

- Ann Packer, NYT bestselling author of The Dive From Clausen's Pier and Swim Back to Me