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"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"--… (plus d'informations)
J'ai beaucoup aimé ce livre inspiré de faits réels. Le récit a deux voix est très réussi, les deux personnages sont des femmes fortes à la recherche de liberté. C'est aussi un roman qui fait réfléchir sur de nombreuses thématiques l'enfance bafouée, les dérives des orphelinats de l'époque, l'adoption,... mais aussi la manière dont on traite les personnes âgées de nos jours. En bref j'ai trouvé ce livre très réussi. ( )
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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
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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.
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My story begins on a sweltering August night, in a place I will never set eyes upon.
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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.
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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.
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"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"--
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