Orphan Number Eight
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Andi Arndt
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Ginny Auer
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Written by:
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Kim van Alkemade
About this listen
A stunning debut novel in the vein of Sarah Waters' historical fiction and inspired by true events, it tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish orphanage.
In 1919, Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City's Lower East Side. When tragedy strikes, Rachel is separated from her brother, Sam, and sent to a Jewish orphanage where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research. Subjected to X-ray treatments that leave her disfigured, Rachel suffers years of cruel harassment from the other orphans. But when she turns 15, she runs away to Colorado, hoping to find the brother she lost, and discovers a family she never knew she had.
Though Rachel believes she's shut out her painful childhood memories, years later she is confronted with her dark past when she becomes a nurse at Manhattan's Old Hebrews Home, and her patient is none other than the elderly, cancer-stricken Dr. Solomon. Rachel becomes obsessed with making Dr. Solomon acknowledge and pay for her wrongdoing. But each passing hour Rachel spends with the old doctor reveals to Rachel the complexities of her own nature. She realizes that a person's fate - to be one who inflicts harm or one who heals - is not always set in stone.
Lush in historical detail, rich in atmosphere, and based on true events, Orphan Number 8 is a powerful, affecting novel of the unexpected choices we are compelled to make that can shape our destinies.
©2015 Kim van Alkemade (P)2015 HarperCollins PublishersWhat listeners say about Orphan Number Eight
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- Kayla
- 2018-09-19
Great performance
Excellent novel, the narrators had great performances. Very intriguing, and I would highly recommend to everyone! #Audible1
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- Iciclequeen91
- 2021-05-24
Excellent
I love the wiring style of the author and the narrator was great.
The ending left me wanting more on what happened after they went to the beach, it felt unfinished.
Did she see her brother,sister-in-law and nephew.
It left me wanting more.
Happy listening
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