The Orphan Daughter, Cari Noga
The Orphan Daughter, Cari Noga
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The Orphan Daughter

Author: Cari Noga

Narrator: Tanya Eby, Frankie Corzo

Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/08/2018

Synopsis

At forty-five, Jane McArdle has experienced her share of life’s twists and turns. Yet she’s shaken by the sudden death of her estranged half sister and the news that she’s now the guardian of her orphaned niece, Lucy.Still nurturing unresolved grief from a marriage bookended by loss, as well as her guilt over her adult son’s imperfect upbringing, Jane is her own worst enemy, content to focus on her small Michigan farm. Now, confronted with a traumatized eleven-year-old, the prickly empty nester is thrust into motherhood again, unsure she’ll do any better this time.City girl Lucy is bewildered by aloof Aunt Jane and a new life in rural Michigan. The debilitating phobia Lucy has developed since her parents’ deaths keeps her stuck in this place that’s nothing like home. She secretly plots to run away to live with other relatives. Jane and Lucy must decide if they’ll both endure yet another loss—each other—or if their paths will lead them to forge a new family together.

About Cari Noga

Cari Noga is the author of Sparrow Migrations and The Orphan Daughter. She wrote the first drafts of both books during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which takes place every year in November. Sparrow Migrations, her debut novel, has been adapted into a five-part miniseries script. Cari earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Marquette University in Milwaukee. In 1997, she landed in Traverse City, Michigan, for a summer job. For four years, she covered the region’s evolving agriculture economy as a reporter for the Traverse City Record-Eagle. She and her husband live in Traverse City with their two children. Visit her at www.carinoga.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary

⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5 The Orphan Daughter by Cari Noga made me tear up constantly, and yet there was still something missing for me. The Orphan Daughter tells the story of Jane who is 45 and lives in rural Michigan, and her 11 year old niece Lucy. Jane has been estranged from her half sister Gloria (Lucy's moth......more

Goodreads review by Mandi

I wanted to love this book, but much of the story felt tedious, alternating between days that went on forever and sudden jumps of several months at a time. The characters also felt flat and stereotypical: the well-meaning woman who confronts her own prejudices and judgements, the hard-working Latino......more

Goodreads review by Alison

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I love to read about the in depth psyche of the characters, and I feel that is what the author does here. The complexities of family, friendships, what keeps us stuck in life, lose, is all part of this story and even though it is not a thriller or mystery, it is just......more

Goodreads review by Bambi

This book brought two people, Aunt Jane and Lucy, together through tragedy. They both had traumatic events that happened to them which causes different issues they have to work through in their own time and ways. I felt that they both had to find a way to forgive....and mostly give themselves forgiv......more

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