The Doll on the Marble Table
A wealthy executive buys a hungry child’s handmade doll and discovers evidence that his own company was used to take homes from families who could not fight back.
Fictional story. Contains child hunger, poverty, bereavement, housing displacement, corporate fraud allegations, and criminal investigation.Chapter 1: The Weight of a Hundred-Dollar Bill
Outside an Upper East Side bakery, Richard Hale met a six-year-old girl holding a worn handmade doll.
She offered to sell it because her mother had not eaten in three days.