Wednesday, Aprl 2 • 7 PM
Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train and Kate Manning, My Notorious Life
A Conversation: Fact and Fiction, How Novelists Make the Past Come Alive
What makes a great book-club read?
Our
favorite novels transport us to another world. When that world
encompasses lost events and characters from the actual past, history
comes alive for readers, and book clubs have a lot to talk about.
Christina Baker Kline's NY Times bestseller and #1 Book Club pick Orphan Train and Kate Manning's My Notorious Life are
two novels inspired by the great social movements of the 19th century.
The authors animate forgotten chapters of history and reclaim lost
figures from the attic of the past. Richly-drawn characters in both
these moving, meticulously-researched novels are swept up in the
orphan-train project that sent 250,000 homeless city children out West
to find homes in the years 1853-1925. Their suspenseful stories
profoundly resonate with today's headlines about social issues
surrounding women, children, birth and adoption. They offer a
fascinating look at where we've come from, and how the past informs the
present.
Event date:
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 7:00pm
Event address:
54 Fairfield St.
07042-4137 Montclair
us
$15.29
ISBN: 9780061950728
Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability)
Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - January 10th, 2017