The orphan train movement “transported a reported two hundred thousand children from the East Coast to the Midwest between 1854 and 1929.” (273)
Somewhere, at some point, I heard about Orphan Train (2013) by Christina Baker Kline and I apparently decided it should be on my reading list. For reasons I cannot remember, I thought that this book was about shipping children from London to the countryside during World War II. I’m not sure if I’m confusing it with another book, or if I just never really looked at the synopsis. Anyway, I started suspecting I was wrong as soon as I saw the locations listed in the chapters. And once I started reading, it finally dawned on me that I had no idea what I was reading.
