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Before We Were Yours

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Later, when she is contacted by the nursing home administrator to say that May took her bracelet, she goes against the administrator's instructions and decides to visit with the lady personally. The story flashes back to 1939, when Rill Foss and her siblings are snatched from their poor Mississippi Shanty boat, after their parents had to leave them behind in an emergency medical situation.

They are thrown into an orphanage where it becomes clear that they are not the only ones to have been abducted in highly dubious circumstances and, although it is not initially clear why they are there, they are all aware that it is not good news. This part of the story is narrated by Rill and the second part, set in South Carolina in the current day is told by Avery, a very successful career woman who is being groomed to take over from her father, a Senator whose health is failing. this is an easy book to recommend if you enjoy historical fiction (beyond WWII), stories about the power of family, and the importance of personal history. When Avery Stafford, the daughter of a prominent Senator stumbles upon the possibility her grandmother is harboring a dark family secret, she nearly becomes obsessed with her mission to uncover the truth.There are two stories being told, interweaving the past and the present eventually revealing the truth. In Memphis, 1939, the dreadful Miss Tann illegally acquires a family of five children who had been living a blissful life with their parents on a river boat. She took children from poor families and sold them to celebrities and people with political interest. 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, Before We Were Yours is a riveting, wrenching and ultimately uplifting global bestseller. In modern-day, Avery is a daughter of a wealthy senate, living a well balanced and privileged life, until an occurrence happens that feeds her with the motivation to want to discover more.

It is interspersed with a present day protagonist - Avery whose father, a senator, has a high profile and is a public figure who can't have a whiff of any kind of scandal. They are left at the Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage and are at the mercy of the branch operator, Georgina Tann. The children that were in this horror home they all seemed to blur together and we felt like we never really got to know them. Many thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.Should you require additional information about any of our listed items, please feel free to contact us. Have you ever read a New York Times Bestseller that's described as 'poignant' and 'powerful' only to discover it is a cheap, cardboard, faux emotional attempt at writing? I loved the conclusion of the story, which was about a perfect as could be expected under the circumstances. As in Orphan Train when I first learned about their existence or in What She Left Behind, which highlights the atrocities of a mental institution and in particular the treatment of women, this story inspired by real events relays the sad story of a family torn apart by the greed and horrible acts against children and their families. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

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