Title: El buen ladron
Description: Growing up in a New England orphanage, unaware of his family and of how he lost his left hand as an infant, twelve-year-old Ren is terrified of the future, until a young man shows up claiming to be his long, lost brother, with whom he embarks on an adventure-filled odyssey of scam artists, petty criminals and resurrection men.
Subjects: Orphans, Fiction, History
Places: United States, New England
Time periods: 1783-1865