The Triumphant Story of a Woman Who Succeeded Against All Odds! Abandoned by her destitute father, Sarah Biddle—and her younger brother, Tom—are sent west on an “orphan train.” But no one wants to adopt a girl with a crippled brother to take care of. Until she reaches Lincoln, Nebraska—and comes face-to-face with Jesse King and Augusta Hathaway. Sarah’s Patchwork is the absorbing story of quiet, unassuming Sarah Biddle—and the hopes, dreams, tragedies, and romance that she stitches into an heirloom quilt. Each scrap of fabric tells of Sarah’s transformation from a frightened orphan girl into a courageous woman of strength and resourcefulness as she stitches... “the tears of the past into a treasure for tomorrow.