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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… (lisätietoja)
Oh wow, this is one of those books I read as slowly as I could toward the end, not wanting to finish it! It is a book I may re-read again to put myself back inside this wonderful story.
I love historical fiction especially if it is based on things that really happened. In this case. Rill and her younger siblings face a similar tragedy as what happened in real life to thousands of other children back in the 1920's to about 1950. Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children's Home Society during those years. Lisa Wingate takes that portion of history and weaves a tale that volleys back and forth from those years to present day.
You'll fall in love with Rill, one of the main voices in the story, her resilience, and her love for her parents and siblings. And you'll want to read it again. ( )
A heart tugger for sure. I know America was and is horrible to Native Americans but for it to do it to its “own” people is disgusting. And in Tennessee of all places. A complete shame. The book was well written with there being two narratives from the grandmother sharing her story as a child currently going though it and the adult grand daughter in present day trying to piece the story as well as her own life together. I am definitely recommending this to others and am going to do some research myself. ( )
This is based on a heartbreaking real story. Children were snatched from their parents in unbelievable circumstances and placed for adoption. Reading this, I so wanted the perpetrator to be put to justice but that wasn't the case. Thankfully, that did not affect the enjoyment of the book. Lisa Wingate wrote the book from two perspectives, skillfully unraveling the mystery between Avery's grandmother and Rill. There's also an interesting budding romance between Avery and Trent Turner taking place on the side of the main story. ( )
Since this was based on a true event, I think more of the facts could have been incorporated into the plot. True, the author describes horrific events, but sometimes they seemed “glossed over”. The writing was terrific and I believe the author could have incorporated some additional realism. ( )
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"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
Omistuskirjoitus
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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.
Ensimmäiset sanat
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My story begins on a sweltering August night, in a place I will never set eyes upon.
Sitaatit
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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.
Lark looks up at me now, with her big mouse eyes, and a sick feeling bubbles in me like a black-water eddy. It's got no place to go. It just spins round and round in circles.
A big staircase rises off to the other side of the kitchen. Most of the paint's rubbed off, like it's been walked on a lot. Half the bars are missing from the railing. A couple loose ones hang out like the leftover teeth in Old Zede's smile.
I leaf through pages, wondering, remembering, thinking about this watershed year. Life can turn on a dime. The appointment book reinforces my new awareness of this. We plan our days, but we don't control them.
Spanish moss drips from the trees, as delicately spun as the lace on a bridal veil.
Guilt and fried shrimp go quite nicely together, it turns out.
We face each other like generals across a war room table.
I form theories as I carry my things to the bedroom, open my suitcase, and settle in. I throw darts at the theories, just the way I would if we were gathered in the war room at my old office.
I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it.
The half-moon hangs heavy, rocking on its back. Its twin rides the ripples in the rain barrel as I pass.
But I can see May withdrawing into herself, the story vanishing like chalk art on a rainy day.
The air around is black as pitch.
"I learned that you need not be born into a family to be loved by one."
"A woman's past need not predict her future."
We start down the hall together, May pushing her walker with surprising speed. I half expect her to throw it aside and start sprinting toward the door.
Viimeiset sanat
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"I don't believe it ever should," Judy agrees, and we fall together in the sweet embrace of sisters, laughing at our own secrets.
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
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It is a book I may re-read again to put myself back inside this wonderful story.
I love historical fiction especially if it is based on things that really happened. In this case. Rill and her younger siblings face a similar tragedy as what happened in real life to thousands of other children back in the 1920's to about 1950. Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children's Home Society during those years. Lisa Wingate takes that portion of history and weaves a tale that volleys back and forth from those years to present day.
You'll fall in love with Rill, one of the main voices in the story, her resilience, and her love for her parents and siblings.
And you'll want to read it again. (