Orphans

“In this rare and beautiful book, Eileen Simpson combines her vivid recollections of growing up as an orphan with an absorbing and compassionate view of the orphan as a cultural figure. An orphan by the age of six, she illuminates from the inside the experience of a little girl slowly coming of age in a world without parents, without a stable home. With her older sister as her base of companionship and strength, she was shuttled through a variety of foster homes, and her childhood was fraught with mysterious adult disappearances and life threatening illnesses. Yet there shines from every page of this extraordinary work the picture of a sensitive child who possesses a sure instinct for life.”

Status: 1 in stock (can be backordered)

Published: 1987

Publisher: A Plume Book

Format: Softcover

ISBN: 0452260604

ID#: 2692

DC#: 362.7 Si