Orphans of the Living

<b>A debut historical fiction for fans of Kristin Hannah and John Steinbeck<i>, </i> <i>Orphans of the Living</i> follows the Stovall family's early 20th-century quest for home and redemption as they confront racism, poverty, and inequality across the American South and West. </b> <p/>In the shadow of the Great Depression and Jim Crow south of the 1930s, an impoverished white family escapes--with the help of Black sharecroppers--from a vengeful Mississippi plantation overseer intent on lynching them. Arriving in California to start a new life, Barney and Lula Stovall are haunted by the past, the children they've left behind, and the daughter they cannot love or protect. <p/><i>Orphans of the Living </i>follows the peripatetic life of the Stovall family, woven from four parallel stories: Barney and Lula Stovall, and two of their nine children, Glen and Nora Mae. <p/>Their California sojourn--from their hardscrabble dairy farm, to the brig at the San Francisco Presidio, to the building of the Golden Gate Bridge--lead them on paths toward each other and forgiveness. But redemption doesn't come to them all.