Before we were yours : a novel / Lisa Wingate.
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. 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780425284681
- ISBN: 0425284689
- ISBN: 9780425284704
- ISBN: 9780593599006
- Physical Description: 342 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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- Tann, Georgia, 1891-1950 > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Orphanages > Fiction.
Adoption > Corrupt practices > Tennessee > Fiction.
Poor children > Fiction.
Memphis (Tenn.) > Fiction.
Tennessee > History > 20th century > Fiction.
South Carolina > Fiction. - Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Available copies
- 166 of 205 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 3 of 3 copies available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)
Holds
- 8 current holds with 205 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Richlands Branch Library | FIC WINGATE (Text) | 36015000796264 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | FIC WINGATE (Text) | 36015001231816 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Swansboro Branch Library | FIC WINGATE (Text) | 36015001014105 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | FIC Wingate (Text) | 31010000747354 | Storage | Available | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | FIC Wingate (Text) | 31010000774051 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F WINGATE (Text) | 39493108215221 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Andrews Public Library | F WIN (Text) | 80605000771443 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Angier Public Library | F Win (Text) | 33632002664218 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/10/2026 |
| Ashe County Public Library | F WIN (Text) | 50503011242197 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | FIC WIN (Text) | 31111002827986 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/14/2026 |
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