Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate


This is the fictionalized story of children taken from the parents and put up for adoption in the infamous Tennessee Children's Home Society.  A woman named Georgia Tann trafficked children taken from their parents in questionable circumstances for over 30 years. 

The book uses a writing technique I don't like of going back and forth chapter by chapter between the past early life of the children and the present day, really annoying.  The author could have done a more scholarly work and used real stories of the children affected. 

Published: 2017  Read: December 2018  Genre: Historical fiction