![]() ![]() ![]() She was deposited with the Byrnes, who wanted only child labor in a dressmaking enterprise. Vivian Daly, born Niamh Power, has gone "from cobblestoned village on the coast of Ireland to a tenement in New York to a train filled with children, steaming westward through farmland, to a lifetime in Minnesota." Vivian’s journey west was aboard an "Orphan Train," a bit of misguided 1900s-era social engineering moving homeless, destitute city children, mostly immigrants, into Midwest families. But Vivian’s story has much in common with Molly’s. Vivian is a wealthy 91-year-old widow, settled in a Victorian mansion on the Maine seashore. Molly is a troubled teen, a foster child bounced from one unsuitable home to another. Kline ( Bird in Hand, 2009, etc.) draws a dramatic, emotional story from a neglected corner of American history. ![]()
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