(2 of 2)
She also extends her portrait, somewhat misguidedly, to include people who were not orphaned but simply separated from their parents, like Charlie Chaplin or Rudyard Kipling. She even argues that America itself is to some extent an orphaned society because its immigrants, from the Mayflower colonists to the latest Chinese mathematician, had to abandon their homes to come here. But the theorizing is not very persuasive. Simpson's best story is her own.