Forgetting Fathers: Untold Stories from an Orphaned Past

An eloquent personal reflection on the fascination of family history and the desire to both discover and escape origins.

In Forgetting Fathers, David Marshall weaves together the stories of his grandfather and great-grandfather with his own quest to solve the mystery of his family's past. Beginning as a search for his lost family name, Marshall attempts to understand the origins of his grandfather, who spent part of his childhood in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of the City of New York. He also r...