02561cam a2200361 i 4500 263764757 TxAuBib 20160525120000.0 140929s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014033782 9780062338303 0062338307 TxAuBib rda Alkemade, Kim van,. Orphan #8 / Kim van Alkemade. Orphan number 8. Orphan number eight. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015. ℗2015. 381 pages, 19 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "P.S. insights, interviews & more--"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-381). 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. 20160525. Jewish orphans Fiction. Human experimentation in medicine Fiction. Revenge Fiction. Historical fiction.