RaveThe Washington PostMartin untangles imagined orphanhood from its severe and persistent reality ... The history is sweeping, damning and infuriating ... Martin’s book contributes to a cultural understanding in which orphanhood is neither manufactured, nor idealized, nor divorced from its dark history. Yet, it still carries an optimism that would make Orphan Annie proud — the hope that we might move beyond the fictional tropes and toward an accountability to American families that we have not yet achieved.
