The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff (2017, Trade Paperback) Historical Fiction
fresh 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.