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02896aam a2200313 i 4500 001 5DD49CFE627B11EE9D8B625031ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231004010043 008 230409s2023 cau 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2023935664 020 $a 1736795422 020 $a 9781736795422 035 $a (OCoLC)1375289511 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d PX0 $d SILO 100 1 $a Tracey, Julia Park, $e author. 245 14 $a The bereaved : $b a novel / $c Julia Park Tracey. 264 1 $a California : $b Sibylline Press, an imprint of All Things Book LLC, $c [2023] 300 $a 270 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a Includes discussion questions (in unnumbered pages at end of work). 520 $a 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. 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. 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. Her children are hungry with no coal for their fire. Illness lays them low and Martha begins to lose hope. The Home for the Friendless, an aid society, offers free food, clothing, and schooling to New York's street kids. When a cutpurse takes the last of their money, Martha reluctantly places her two boys in the Home, keeping daughter Sarah to help with the baby. Martha takes roommates into her one room, rotating her and Sarah's bed in shifts with other struggling women. Finally, faced with prostitution and homelessness herself, Martha takes Sarah and baby Homer to the Home for what she thinks is short-term care. When her quarterly visit to her children is blocked, Martha discovers that the Society has indentured her two eldest out to work in New York and Illinois via the Orphan Train, and has placed her two youngest for permanent adoption in Ohio. Stunned at their loss, Martha begs for her children back, but the Society refuses. Rather than succumb--the Civil War erupting around her--Martha sets out to reclaim each of them. 610 20 $a Home for the Friendless (Newark, N.J.) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Young women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Adoption $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Orphan trains $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20231004010439.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5DD49CFE627B11EE9D8B625031ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search