The Bereaved Park Tracey Julia
The Bereaved Park Tracey Julia Based on the author's research into her grandfather's past as an adopted child, and the surprising discovery of his family of origin and how he came to be adopted,…
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The Bereaved Park Tracey Julia
Based on the author's research into her grandfather's past as an adopted child, and the surprising discovery of his family of origin and how he came to be adopted, Julia Park Tracey has created a mesmerizing work of historical fiction illuminating the darkest side of the Orphan Train.In 1859, women have few rights, even to their own children. She manages to find them shelter in a tenement packed with other down-on-their-luck families and then endeavors to find work as a seamstress.But as a naive woman alone, preyed on by male employers, she soon finds herself nearly destitute. When her husband dies and her children become wards of a predator, Martha--bereaved and scared--flees their beloved country home taking the children with her to squalor of New York City.
Illness lays them low and Martha begins to lose hope. Her children are hungry with no coal for their fire.