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When she was younger, Lisa was inspired by a teacher who said she could expect to be a writer someday. Lisa lives and writes in Texas. Before We Were Yours remained on the New York Times bestseller list for fifty-four weeks and has sold over two million copies. Wingate has penned over thirty novels.
The
Tennessee Children's Home Society's scandal which involved the
kidnapping of children and their illegal adoptions is the subject of her
2017 novel, Before We Were Yours.
In October 2019, Wingate and Judy Christie released the book Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society. It is a nonfiction companion to Wingate's novel. Before and After was a finalist for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Non-Fiction History and Biography.
Synopsis
THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller
Publishers Weekly’s #3 Longest-Running Bestseller of 2017 • Winner of the Southern Book Prize
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.
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