{"product_id":"9781250009180","title":"Mercy Train: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich, luminous novel of three remarkable women connected across a  century by a family secret and by the fierce brilliance of their love \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSamantha's  mother has been dead almost a year when the box arrives on her  doorstep. In it, she finds recipe cards, keepsakes, letters-relics of  her mother Iris's past. But as Sam sifts through these family treasures,  she uncovers evidence that her grandmother, Violet, had a much more  difficult childhood then she could have ever imagined. And Sam, a  struggling new mother herself, begins to see her own burdens in a  completely different light. Moving from the tempered calm of  contemporary Madison, Wisconsin to the seedy underbelly of early  twentieth century New York, we come face to face with a haunting piece  of America's past: From 1854 to 1929 orphan trains from New York  transported 150,000 to 200,000 destitute, orphaned or abandoned children  across the country to find homes on farms in the Midwest. Rae Meadows  takes us on our own journey of discovery in \u003ci\u003eMercy Train (originally published as Mothers \u0026amp; Daughters)\u003c\/i\u003e,  an affecting and wonderfully woven novel about three generations of  motherhood, family, and the surprising sacrifices we make for the people  we love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42437554339901,"sku":"9781250009180","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781250009180_p0.jpg?v=1771590394","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781250009180","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}