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New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8, Kim van
Alkemade returns with a gripping and poignant historical saga in
which an unmarried college student who’s given up her baby for
adoption helps a Dutch Holocaust survivor search for his lost
mother. 1960, New York City:Â College student Rita Klein is a
pioneering woman in the new field of computer programming—until
she unexpectedly becomes pregnant. At the Hudson Home for Unwed
Mothers, social workers pressure her into surrendering her baby for
adoption. Rita is struggling to get on with her life when she meets
Jacob Nassy, a charming yet troubled man from the Netherlands who
is traumatized by his childhood experience of being separated from
his mother during the Holocaust. When Rita learns that Hitler’s
Final Solution was organized using Hollerith punch-card computers,
she sets out to find the answers that will help Jacob heal. 1941,
The Hague:Â Cornelia Vogel is working as a punch-card operator
at the Ministry of Information when a census of Holland’s
population is ordered by the Germans. After the Ministry acquires a
Hollerith computer made in America, Cornelia is tasked with
translating its instructions from English into Dutch. She seeks
help from her fascinating Jewish neighbor, Leah Blom, an
unconventional young woman whose mother was born in New York. When
Cornelia learns the census is being used to persecute Holland’s
Jews, she risks everything to help Leah escape. After Rita uncovers
a connection between Cornelia Vogel and Jacob’s mother,
long-buried secrets come to light. Will shocking revelations tear
them apart, or will learning the truth about the past enable Rita
and Jacob to face the future together?
In this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events, Kim
van Alkemade 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 years before. In 1919, Rachel Rabinowitz is a
vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded
tenement on New York City's Lower Eastside. 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 fifteen, 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 reveal 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 #8 is a
powerful, affecting novel of the unexpected choices we are
compelled to make that can shape our destinies.
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