Alain Mabanckou`s `Black Moses` is an orphan story with biting humor
(LA Times Kings)

`Our heroes tend to be orphans,` Zinzi Clemmons writes in her debut novel `What We Lose,` and the more you look the more the literary universe seems all but built by them. They stretch from Beowulf to Batman, from Tom Sawyer to Harry Potter, Pip to Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre to Anne of Green Gables....