https://www.amazon.com/Before-We-Were-Yours-Novel/dp/0425284689
[https://www.amazon.com/Before-We-Were-Yours-Novel/dp/0425284689]For
readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a "thought-provoking
[and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . .
based on a notorious true-life scandal."
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings
live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River
shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the
hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers
arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a
Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are
assured that they will soon be returned to their parents--but they
quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility's cruel
director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a
world of danger and uncertainty.
Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege,
Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal
prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon.
But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health
crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and
compels her to take a journey through her family's long-hidden
history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or
to redemption.
Based on one of America's most notorious real-life scandals--in which
Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization,
kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the
country--Lisa Wingate's riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting
tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many
places, the heart never forgets where we belong.
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