“Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.” WritingYearsTwoHomePastPovertyStruggleNew YorkTrainTalesIsolationFascinatingImmigrantsStringsHardshipSurvivorIrelandUnlikelyOrphanCasualtiesBakersMidwestChristina Author:Cathy Marie Buchanan
“Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty; in either case it may be a stain or an honor. If he is born in poverty, and his future life throws a lustre over an humble birth, the reward will not only be great, but his name will stand higher on the roll of honor and virtue, than he who can only boast of his proud descent.” IfsMenMayHomeNamesBornPovertyCasesVirtueProudBirthHigherHonorRewardsHumbleEasePleasantBoastStainsLotteryDescentAffluenceHutsFuture Life Author:James Ellis
“Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.” MayHomeEarthPovertyQuietDignitySkinsUnconsciousWorn Author:Bessie Head
“They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]” HomeAbilityPovertyRepressed Author:Juvenal
“The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.” YearsHas BeensStatesHomePoliticalThreeOpportunityReligiousUnitedCitiesClassPovertyUnited StatesEconomicEmotionalHundredLeavingEducationalOppressionNativeVillagePersecutionFoundingRefugeeBetter LifeFamineOrphanAsylumsPersecutedClass SystemReligious PersecutionPolitical Oppression Author:Eileen Simpson