Before we were yours. [online electronic audiobook]
Before we were yours. [online electronic audiobook]
By
:
Wingate, Lisa.
Publication Date
:
2017
Subject Term
:
Siblings -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Electronic books.
Audiobooks -- Unabridged.
Geographic Term
:
Mississippi -- Fiction.
South Carolina -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction.
Additional Contributors
:
Rankin, Emily,
Performer
:
Read by Emily Rankin.
Summary
:
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 fiancÔe , 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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781524780692
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