The Orphan Daughter
Written by Cari Noga
Narrated by Tanya Eby and Frankie Corzo
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
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.
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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A beautifully written book about loss. My heart went out to Lucy. She suffered such a brutal loss. I loved that the author wrote from the perspective of both Lucy and her Aunt. It made the characters come to life.