Ghosts of the Orphanage by Christine Kenneally

Ghosts of the Orphanage by Christine Kenneally

The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages--which for decades hid violence, abuse, and deaths within their walls.



"Tenacious and jaw-dropping." --Jessica Garrison, author of The Devil's Harvest



For much of the twentieth century, a series of terrible events--abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths--took places inside orphanages. The survivors have been trying to tell their astonishing stories for a long time, but disbelief, secrecy, and trauma have kept them from breaking through. For ten years, Christine Kenneally has been on a quest to uncover the harrowing truth.



Centering her story on St. Joseph's, a Catholic orphanage in Vermont, Kenneally has written a stunning account of a series of crimes and abuses. But her work is not confined to one place. Following clues that take her into the darkened corners of several institutions across the globe, she finds a trail of terrifying stories and a courageous group of survivors who are seeking justice. Ghosts of the Orphanage is an incredible true crime story and a reckoning with a past that has stayed buried for too long, with tragic consequences.

Christine Kenneally is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The First Word: The Quest for the Origins of Language, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. She is currently based in Melbourne, Australia.

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ISBN 13	9781541758513
ISBN 10	154175851X
Title	Ghosts of the Orphanage
Author	Christine Kenneally
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	PublicAffairs
Year published	2023-03-21
Number of pages	384
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