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Laddar... Before We Were Yours: A Novel (urspr publ 2017; utgåvan 2017)av Lisa Wingate (Författare)
VerksinformationBefore We Were Yours av Lisa Wingate (2017)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Wow is all I can say about this book this has by far been the best book I have read. I have read plenty of books but this one was the best I don’t even have words for this book although the people in the book or fictional the stories are real and they’re based on true story. It is unbelievable that Georgia tan was able to get away with what she did for so many years all those children that died and were never reunited with their parents all those children’s given two homes that missed treated them all those children that were molestedAnd beat it’s so sad so many parts of this book brought so many tears to my eyes makes me look at my own children and just want to hang onto them so tight and never let them go because there are some weirdPeople in this world I don’t want to give away any more spoilers because I’m sure there’s a Tonna people that have not read this book yet but for those of you who read it you know what I’m talking about. ( ) This was a very good book about a difficult subject; the stealing of children to have them adopted out for profit. What started in 1930 and ends in modern times, this fictional story about a real event is very well done and well researched. I knew about the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, but not to the depth this book told. It is difficult to read in spots - no one wants to read about child abuse - but Lisa Wingate was tasteful and articulate and drove her points home without being overly graphic. I would recommend this book. This book tells the stories of Rill Foss and Avery Stafford. Rill is a young girl growing up on the Mississippi River in 1939. Through an unfortunate series of events, she and her siblings are placed in the Tennessee Children's Home orphanage. Avery Stafford is a privileged young woman who has recently moved back to Aiken, SC to help her parents out. She stumbles across a mystery involving her grandmother on her paternal side which leads her to uncover Rill's story. This book is based on actual events. The stories of Rill and Avery are fiction but some of the facts around the Tennessee Children's Home are factual. The kidnapping and eventual adoption of these "orphan" children was organized by Georgia Tann, Director. She had lots of influential people that looked the other way until she was eventually closed the center down after a state investigation into numerous instances of adoption fraud. This is a dual timeline story set in the Southern US. The modern-day tale involves our female protagonist (of a high-profile political family) trying to learn about the history of her grandmother, now suffering from dementia. The earlier set story (in the 1940s?) centers on the grandmother as a child, when she was a victim of the Tennessee Children's Home Society’ scam involving the sale of “orphans”. This plot stemmed from a shocking true-life scandal. I felt that the story dragged on and felt repetitive. The characters seemed to always be having the same thoughts and worries, with slow advancement of the plot. And it was a little too sappy for my tastes. (I listened to it on an audiobook.) The characters in this historical fiction were beautifully drawn and the story was compelling. In telling the tale of a real and heartbreaking chapter of history regarding children as commodities in a money-making adoption scheme, Ms. Wingate also explored the theme of excavating oneself from the life we sometimes adopt because of others’ expectations for us.
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"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived a charmed life. Loving daughter to her father, a U.S. Senator, she has a promising career as an assistant D.A. in Baltimore and is engaged to her best friend. But when Avery comes home to help her father weather a health crisis and a political attack, a chance encounter with a stranger leaves her deeply shaken. Avery's decision to learn more about the woman's life will take her on a journey through her family's long-hidden history"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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