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My local library daytime book group has selected Orphan #8 for their February book to read. I listened to it on audio. It is a fiction story based on factual events. A young girl named Rachel, and her brother Sam, are placed in the NYC orphanage system about 1920. Experimental X-rays are done on Rachel causing her to lose her hair and her eyebrows etc. She suffers a childhood of being ridiculed. Then as an adult nurse Rachel suddenly finds herself face to face with the doctor who did the experiments. The doctor is dying and the doctor is a patient on Rachel's unit. This historical fiction novel deals with a lot of issues. It will be a good book to discuss at book club this month. The history of medical experiments on children is very real. Please read THIS article. This book does have some graphic homosexual love scenes in its pages. It also raises ethical issues regarding not only medical experimentation but also questions about euthanasia. There will be no shortage of directions the discussion at book group can go this month! Please click on the book title and author's name above to follow the links to learn more. And for those who are wanting even more background information, the lengthy lecture on the video that follows is a tragic picture of how institutionalized children been been used, over and over, as subjects in medical experiments.
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