具體描述
The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask.
Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just months from "aging out" of the child welfare system, and close to being kicked out of her foster home, a community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping her out of juvie and worse.
Vivian Daly has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly discovers that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.
The closer Molly grows to Vivian, the more she discovers parallels to her own life. A Penobscot Indian, she, too, is an outsider being raised by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past. As her emotional barriers begin to crumble, Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life - answers that will ultimately free them both.
Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.
用戶評價
##兩位忘年的女性，因為同樣的孤兒身份而有瞭交集和共鳴，兩條時間綫索在相互穿插、交融。人性的真僞在字裏行間迸發，值得一讀。
評分##Abrupt ending.
評分##She hates to be like a coward.
評分##兩位忘年的女性，因為同樣的孤兒身份而有瞭交集和共鳴，兩條時間綫索在相互穿插、交融。人性的真僞在字裏行間迸發，值得一讀。
評分##Abrupt ending.
評分##很溫情~！
評分##一生一世紀。Some stories are like this, you would never understand it better than having been experienced a fragment of it. Sometimes we have to clean up and put away the past cuz it's too heavy to carry along, but there are definitely times to revisit to ensure ourselves who we truly are. When years pass by, the heavy could be lift upon as feather.
評分##Identity
評分##語言簡潔，結構清晰，兩條綫交錯而過。一個是1920/30年代從愛爾蘭移民而來的小女孩，曆經種種磨難，從紐約齣發的孤兒列車中去尋找傢的歸宿。一個是2011年轉輾於各個寄宿傢庭的小姑娘。她們有著不同卻又相似的遭遇。雖然情節有些“老套”，但讀起來很流暢，很投入，也很感動。
相關圖書
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息，本站不存储任何数据与内容，任何内容与数据均与本站无关，如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度，google,bing,sogou 等
© 2026 book.tinynews.org All Rights Reserved. 静思书屋 版权所有