Title: Before We Were Yours
Author: Lisa Wingate
Genre: Historical Fiction
In this book two stories are told.
Memphis, TN, 1939: Rill Foss is the oldest of five who live in a shantyboat on the Mississippi River. After a health crisis forces Rill's parents to seek out a hospital, Rill and her siblings are captured and end up in a Tennessee Children's Home Society Orphanage. Rill struggles to keep her siblings together and safe as they are given new names and displayed to would-be adopters.
Aiken, SC, Present: Avery Stafford, the daughter of a prominent senator, is now being groomed to take her father's place as his health is failing. With her life of privilege, her law-degree, and her long-time fiance, it seems as though everything is being planned for her. A surprise meeting during a photo op at a nursing home makes her dig deeper into her family's history and what she learns may just derail all of her family's political plans.
This book was selected as the 2017 Goodreads winner for Historical Fiction.
Memphis, TN, 1939: Rill Foss is the oldest of five who live in a shantyboat on the Mississippi River. After a health crisis forces Rill's parents to seek out a hospital, Rill and her siblings are captured and end up in a Tennessee Children's Home Society Orphanage. Rill struggles to keep her siblings together and safe as they are given new names and displayed to would-be adopters.
Aiken, SC, Present: Avery Stafford, the daughter of a prominent senator, is now being groomed to take her father's place as his health is failing. With her life of privilege, her law-degree, and her long-time fiance, it seems as though everything is being planned for her. A surprise meeting during a photo op at a nursing home makes her dig deeper into her family's history and what she learns may just derail all of her family's political plans.
This book was selected as the 2017 Goodreads winner for Historical Fiction.
- Sarah R.
