Adrift in New York: Tom and Florence Braving the World is a novel by Horatio Alger, Jr. published in 1900. The story follows Florence Linden, who faces familial pressure to marry her unscrupulous cousin Curtis Waring in order to secure her uncle's fortune. Instead, she chooses independence and encounters various challenges, including living in a tenement and working in a sweatshop. The narrative explores themes of identity, loyalty, and the struggle for self-determination against a backdrop of 19th-century New York.
