Orphan Train

by Christina Baker Kline

And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you’re lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you’re broken inside.

Vivian has returned to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They’re with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend.

My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like fate.