Audio Book Review: Orphan Number 8 by Kim Van Alkemade
Release Date: August 4, 2015 Publisher: Harper Audio Format: Audible Audio Length: 11 hours 1 minute Narrator: Andi Arndt, Ginny Auer Buy: Kindle | Paperback | Audible Synopsis: 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 elde...