First published 2016
Rose awakens from a terrible accident to find herself employed by a strange agency. Her job involves facilitating the Orphan Exchange program, which moves missing children from one family to another. The work forces her into an unsettling bureaucratic maze where desperate parents plead for help while agency officials pursue their own agenda. Rose must navigate this bizarre world while wrestling with her own painful history. Every decision she makes carries enormous weight, pushing her to question what she believes about right and wrong. The agency's operations grow more disturbing as Rose uncovers the true nature of the child exchanges. She faces impossible choices that will determine not only her own fate but the lives of countless families. Niffenegger crafts a story that examines how trauma shapes us and how human bonds endure even in the most twisted circumstances.
Genres: mystery, fantasy, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, moral-dilemma
Setting: Orphan Exchange
20 pages · ebook · William Morrow Paperbacks
Content warnings: child-abuse, emotional-abuse