5/21/2023 0 Comments Orphan train author![]() "I have a lot of the actual historical material including pictures of real orphan train riders as children and as adults," Kline says. Her presentation will include a slide show with lots of photos and newspaper clippings. "It's a wonderful opportunity to be out in the world and hear what people respond to and what touches them or interests them," she said. She likes doing community reads, Kline says. It's been the subject of dozens of programs and reading groups, and will culminate with Klein's lecture and book signing at 7 p.m. Kline will be in Wilmington April 25 to talk about her book, which was chosen as the 2018 New Castle Reads book by New Castle County libraries. "What does it mean to be new to the country? How are you treated? How is different today?" "That's part of what the book is about, and I think that’s part of what people are interested in," Kline said in a telephone interview from her home in New Jersey. So do many of the poor kids in her history-based novel who end up being put on the orphan train in search of a home, job and safety. ![]() Christina Baker Kline, author of "Orphan Train," can draw a line from the events in her novel about New York orphans shipped west to today's bad treatment of Muslim and Hispanic immigrants.Īt the turn of the 20th century, she says, it was not unusual for Irish, Italian and other immigrants to find themselves spit at, called names and abused in many ways. ![]()
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