Pam Jenoff is the New York Times bestselling
author of The Orphan's Tale, as well as eight other novels. The
Kommandant's Girl, her first novel, was an international bestseller and
nominated for a Quill award. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international
affairs from George Washington University and a master’s degree in history from
Cambridge, and she received her Juris Doctor from the University of
Pennsylvania. Jenoff’s novels are based on her experiences working at the
Pentagon and also as a diplomat for the State Department handling Holocaust
issues in Poland. She lives outside Philadelphia, Pa. with her husband and
three children where, in addition to writing, she teaches law school.
A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival.
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she steals one of the babies and flees into the snowy night.
Noa finds refuge with a German circus, but she must learn the flying trapeze act so she can blend in undetected, spurning the resentment of the lead aerialist, Astrid. At first rivals, Noa and Astrid soon forge a powerful bond. But as the facade that protects them proves increasingly tenuous, Noa and Astrid must decide whether their friendship is enough to save one another—or if the secrets that burn between them will destroy everything.
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