Unveiling Forgotten Shadows: The Disturbing Truth Behind America’s Orphan Crisis in Kristen Martin’s Latest Exposé
Martin successfully uses story in this way. She understands that stories can be shorthand for talking about painful subjects we would prefer remain undiscussed. We as a country have not been good at looking at the darker parts of our collective history. We gloss over slavery, deny our segregationist past. Martin wants us to avoid this same mistake with our treatment of dependent children. With The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow, she is helping us to look at that history, to own it, and in so doing, she is hoping we will begin to improve our approach to these young lives.
