The Orphan of Manhattan - Marie-Bernadette Dupuy - book

New York is their promised land. Leaving their native Charente in the fall of 1886 to board a steamer bound for the New World, Guillaume and Catherine are eager for a new life and full of hope. However, their dream of freedom will quickly turn into a nightmare. Due to a succession of tragedies, their daughter Élisabeth finds herself alone in New York, left to fend for herself in the heart of the immense American city.
After wandering through Central Park for a night, the little girl is run over by the wealthy Woolworths' carriage. The couple nurses her back to health and decides to keep this adorable child, who seems to have come out of nowhere, close to them. She begins to grow up pampered, like a princess.
But on the other side of the ocean, his paternal grandfather, a winegrower from Charente, soon sets off in search of him...