Orphans Song

About the Book

Gifted siblings Jane and Kenny Palmer yearn for a normal family life when Papa returns from WWI as a maimed hero, but a labor riot and subway shooting change everything. Chapin Hall a Chicago orphanage becomes their new home, where Jane discovers her star quality and passion for singing on the world stage, while Kenny exhibits his math prodigy and physical toughness.

This tale of fearsome premonitions, separate adoptions, journey on an orphan train, and Vaudeville venues is set in gangland Chicago and rural Nebraska during the Roaring Twenties ending with the Great Market Crash of 1929.

About the Author

John R. Downes proves his credentials as a master storyteller in this, his second novel.

Also by John R. Downes:

Fiction:

A Few Deadly Friends

Non-Fiction:

How to be Irresistible Through the Power of Persuasion
Nonconfrontation Selling
Try Not to Think of an Orange