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'Making Home' explores the orphan child as a trope in contemporary US fiction, arguing that in times of perceived national crisis concerns about American identity, family, and literary history are articulated around this literary figure. The book focuses on orphan figures in a broad, multi-ethnic range of contemporary fiction by Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Toni Morrison.

American fiction --- Orphans in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- 21st century --- History and criticism --- Orphans in literature --- Group identity in literature. --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- History and criticism.. --- American novels. --- cultural memory. --- family. --- gender. --- genre. --- kinship. --- multiculturalism. --- national identity. --- orphans. --- race.