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Book Review of Before We Were Yours

Before We Were Yours
Before We Were Yours
Author: Lisa Wingate
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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What.A.Book. Another to add to one of my favorites!

This is a heartbreaking story about the real life scandal involving the infamous Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage in 1920's through 1950's. Children of poor parents were kidnapped and sold to the elite after being brutalized at the home.

This is one of the most heart wrenching, painful and traumatic book I've read, a "can't put it down" book with the author's superbly written text which puts me in the story as if I'm experiencing it myself.

My only regret is that Georgia Tann, Director of a Memphis based adoption organization, sold these children all over the country and got away with it. She was brutal and merciless to the children even went so far as committing murder.
Eventually she died of cancer, but deserved much worse!

A MUST read!