When her divorce sends her reeling back to the Maine town where she grew up, she finds herself plunged into a sea of memories. Ten years later, Kathryn has tried to build a life for herself, with a marriage and a career as a journalist, but she still feels the conspicuous void of Jennifer’s disappearance.

“I’ll be fine,” Jennifer says, as she walks away from the dying embers and towards the darkness of the woods. On the night of her high school graduation, Kathryn Campbell sits around a bonfire with her four closest friends, including the beautiful but erratic Jennifer. Read onlineįrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be, comes a novel about friendship and the memories that haunt us-includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more.

Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are. 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. 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. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren’t as different as they seem to be. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse. Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to “aging out” out of the foster care system. Education is a system where you see changes very slowly, but when you plant a seed, it. When we take any action, we have to understand that there is a great responsibility for tomorrow. Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan Train is an unforgettable story of friendship and second chances that highlights a little-known but historically significant movement in America’s past-and it includes a special PS section for book clubs featuring insights, interviews, and more. Whatever we do affects millions of peoplenot only those that are in school now, but parents and future generations.

Bird in hand by christina baker kline