I really didn't care much for this book based on any classification. Divided into three parts, each part did move more quickly as I read on, but I had a hard time getting past part I. The whole story seemed to wander around a lot, with loose ends that were never really explained, and with a rather trite ending. I found it to be a rather unbelievable romance novel instead of historical fiction. I thought it would have been much so better if it had focused solely on the subject matter of children being sold during the depression, and had not tried to pull in all the other unnecessary storylines that, to me, weakened the main plot line.