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Orphanhood is a category for books that center characters or narrators who have lost, been separated from, or never known their parents, and that trace the emotional, social, and practical consequences of that absence. These works explore grief, identity formation, the search for origins, and the making of chosen families, often engaging with institutions such as foster care, adoption, orphanages, and kinship networks. Spanning literary and commercial fiction, young adult, memoir, historical narratives, and speculative reimaginings, the stories range from stark realism to mythic quests, from Dickensian trials to contemporary reckonings. They illuminate resilience and vulnerability, questions of belonging, inheritance, and autonomy, and the ways communities can harm and heal. Ultimately, Orphanhood highlights how lives are shaped by loss and by the courage to build a home in its wake.

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