The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff (2017, Trade Paperback) Historical Fiction
just-arrived York Times bestseller!If you liked Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants will embrace this novel. “ Library Journal“Secrets, lies, treachery, and passion…. I read this novel in a headlong rush.” —Christina Baker Kline,The Orphan’s Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival.Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep… When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. She takes a child and flees to join a traveling German Circus.