IniciGrupsConversesMésTendències
Cerca al lloc
Aquest lloc utilitza galetes per a oferir els nostres serveis, millorar el desenvolupament, per a anàlisis i (si no has iniciat la sessió) per a publicitat. Utilitzant LibraryThing acceptes que has llegit i entès els nostres Termes de servei i política de privacitat. L'ús que facis del lloc i dels seus serveis està subjecte a aquestes polítiques i termes.

Resultats de Google Books

Clica una miniatura per anar a Google Books.

S'està carregant…

Before We Were Yours (2017)

de Lisa Wingate

Altres autors: Mira la secció altres autors.

MembresRessenyesPopularitatValoració mitjanaMencions
4,3002312,698 (4.12)120
Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT??Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller
??Poignant, engrossing.???People ? ??Lisa Wingate takes an almost unthinkable chapter in our nation??s history and weaves a tale of enduring power.???Paula McLain
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 fiancé, 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??Lisa Wingate??s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.
Publishers Weekly??s #3 Longest-Running Bestseller of 2017 ? Winner of the Southern Book P
… (més)
S'està carregant…

Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar.

No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.

» Mira també 120 mencions

Anglès (225)  Alemany (2)  Francès (1)  Totes les llengües (228)
Es mostren 1-5 de 228 (següent | mostra-les totes)
This book tells the stories of Rill Foss and Avery Stafford. Rill is a young girl growing up on the Mississippi River in 1939. Through an unfortunate series of events, she and her siblings are placed in the Tennessee Children's Home orphanage. Avery Stafford is a privileged young woman who has recently moved back to Aiken, SC to help her parents out. She stumbles across a mystery involving her grandmother on her paternal side which leads her to uncover Rill's story.

This book is based on actual events. The stories of Rill and Avery are fiction but some of the facts around the Tennessee Children's Home are factual. The kidnapping and eventual adoption of these "orphan" children was organized by Georgia Tann, Director. She had lots of influential people that looked the other way until she was eventually closed the center down after a state investigation into numerous instances of adoption fraud. ( )
  Cathie_Dyer | Feb 29, 2024 |
This is a dual timeline story set in the Southern US. The modern-day tale involves our female protagonist (of a high-profile political family) trying to learn about the history of her grandmother, now suffering from dementia. The earlier set story (in the 1940s?) centers on the grandmother as a child, when she was a victim of the Tennessee Children's Home Society’ scam involving the sale of “orphans”. This plot stemmed from a shocking true-life scandal. I felt that the story dragged on and felt repetitive. The characters seemed to always be having the same thoughts and worries, with slow advancement of the plot. And it was a little too sappy for my tastes. (I listened to it on an audiobook.) ( )
  AnnieKMD | Feb 13, 2024 |
The characters in this historical fiction were beautifully drawn and the story was compelling. In telling the tale of a real and heartbreaking chapter of history regarding children as commodities in a money-making adoption scheme, Ms. Wingate also explored the theme of excavating oneself from the life we sometimes adopt because of others’ expectations for us. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
Sad, but beautiful story of a family of children taken illegally from their home so they could be ?sold? to rich families who wanted children.Kirkus: Avery Stafford, a lawyer, descendant of two prominent Southern families and daughter of a distinguished senator, discovers a family secret that alters her perspective on heritage.Wingate (Sisters, 2016, etc.) shifts the story in her latest novel between present and past as Avery uncovers evidence that her Grandma Judy was a victim of the Tennessee Children?s Home Society and is related to a woman Avery and her father meet when he visits a nursing home. Although Avery is living at home to help her parents through her father?s cancer treatment, she is also being groomed for her own political career. Readers learn that investigating her family?s past is not part of Avery's scripted existence, but Wingate's attempts to make her seem torn about this are never fully developed, and descriptions of her chemistry with a man she meets as she's searching are also unconvincing. Sections describing the real-life orphanage director Georgia Tann, who stole poor children, mistreated them, and placed them for adoption with wealthy clientsincluding Joan Crawford and June Allyson¥are more vivid, as are passages about Grandma Judy and her siblings. Wingate?s fans and readers who enjoy family dramas will find enough to entertain them, and book clubs may enjoy dissecting the relationship and historical issues in the book.Wingate sheds light on a shameful true story of child exploitation but is less successful in engaging readers in her fictional characters' lives.
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
The story is told from two perspectives across decades. One I felt very connected to and immersed, and the other felt disingenuous. The story overall is well done, though, especially considering its tribute to the true horror inspired by it. ( )
  rosenmemily | Jan 7, 2024 |
Es mostren 1-5 de 228 (següent | mostra-les totes)

» Afegeix-hi altres autors (7 possibles)

Nom de l'autorCàrrecTipus d'autorObra?Estat
Wingate, Lisaautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Rankin, EmilyNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Taber, CatherineNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Has d'iniciar sessió per poder modificar les dades del coneixement compartit.
Si et cal més ajuda, mira la pàgina d'ajuda del coneixement compartit.
Títol normalitzat
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Títol original
Títols alternatius
Data original de publicació
Gent/Personatges
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Llocs importants
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Esdeveniments importants
Pel·lícules relacionades
Epígraf
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
"Did you know that in this land of the free and home of the brave there is a great baby market? And the securities which change hands...are not mere engraved slips of paper promising certain financial dividends, but live, kicking, flesh-and-blood babies."  ---FROM THE ARTICLE "THE BABY MARKET, The Saturday Evening Post, February 1, 1930
"They are, [Georgia Tann] said repeatedly, blank slates. They are born untainted, and if you adopt them at an early age and surround them with beauty and culture, they will become anything you wish them to be."  ---BARBARA BISANTZ RAYMOND, The Baby Thief
Dedicatòria
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
For the hundreds who vanished
and for the thousands who didn't.
May your stories
not be forgotten.
For those who help today's orphans
find forever homes.
May you always know the value 
of your work
and your love.
Primeres paraules
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
My story begins on a sweltering August night, in a place I will never set eyes upon.
Citacions
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
It's funny how what you're used to seems like it's right even if it's bad.
Life is not unlike cinema.  Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand.  No matter how much we love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around in something that doesn't suit the moment.
I have to be close to my sister, We've been stitched together at the heart since she was born.
In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best as they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.
The names of old friends and acquaintances she can often recall with ease. It's as if her memory book has fallen open, a persistent wind tearing out the most recent pages first. The older the memories are, the more likely they are to remain intact.
Darreres paraules
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
(Clica-hi per mostrar-ho. Compte: pot anticipar-te quin és el desenllaç de l'obra.)
Nota de desambiguació
Editor de l'editorial
Creadors de notes promocionals a la coberta
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Llengua original
CDD/SMD canònics
LCC canònic

Referències a aquesta obra en fonts externes.

Wikipedia en anglès

Cap

Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT??Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller
??Poignant, engrossing.???People ? ??Lisa Wingate takes an almost unthinkable chapter in our nation??s history and weaves a tale of enduring power.???Paula McLain
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 fiancé, 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??Lisa Wingate??s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.
Publishers Weekly??s #3 Longest-Running Bestseller of 2017 ? Winner of the Southern Book P

No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca.

Descripció del llibre
Sumari haiku

Debats actuals

Cap

Cobertes populars

Dreceres

Valoració

Mitjana: (4.12)
0.5
1 11
1.5 3
2 19
2.5 8
3 165
3.5 64
4 370
4.5 68
5 379

Ets tu?

Fes-te Autor del LibraryThing.

 

Quant a | Contacte | LibraryThing.com | Privadesa/Condicions | Ajuda/PMF | Blog | Botiga | APIs | TinyCat | Biblioteques llegades | Crítics Matiners | Coneixement comú | 202,660,077 llibres! | Barra superior: Sempre visible