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The Orphan Collector
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
A little more than 100 years ago, the most deadly pandemic hit the U.S. and the world. ....the Spanish flu. It's both eye opening and too close for comfort. The story opens at a superspreader event, the Liberty Loans parade of 200,000 attendees in Philadelphia. Within days after the parade, the highly contagious flu wrecks devastation and death throughout the city. Pia Lange, a small girl watches as the city changes with everyone wearing masks and the proliferation of bodies everywhere. After her mother succumbs to the flu, Pia tries to hide her mother's death and protect her twin infant brothers. But she runs out of food and formula and has to venture out. u
Unfortunately she collapses while out and ends up in a hospital and then an orphanage. Hardships define her life in the orphanage and she never gives up the search for her brothers. Wiseman brings the horrors to life with impeccable research but Pia is resilient and the story manages to move past the bleakness and into hope.
Unfortunately she collapses while out and ends up in a hospital and then an orphanage. Hardships define her life in the orphanage and she never gives up the search for her brothers. Wiseman brings the horrors to life with impeccable research but Pia is resilient and the story manages to move past the bleakness and into hope.