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Chargement... Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society (2019)par Judy Christie, Lisa Wingate
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. If you have read the fictional book Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, this is the non-fiction story of the actual children who came from the Tennessee Home for Children in Memphis. The authors arranged a reunion for adoptees who were placed in the home in the 1930's and 1940's. Most of the adopted children were age 70 or above and were still looking for news of parents or siblings. Most of them were adopted as infants, but a few remember being in the Tennessee Home and tell the story of being separated from their families. Their stories are hopeful and heartbreaking, but most leave the reunion knowing they are not alone and others have the same feelings as they do. I feel that I read part 2 before part 1. No really. I need to read the fiction book that inspired all of the events, stories, and reunions of "Before and After." However, I am fascinated by this topic (Tennessee Home Society and all the ways they messed with families) and everything else. So I really would like to do more reading. This would be perfect for my Mom--she loves genealogy. This book is truly a historical buff's dream. And the message of sharing stories is HUGE. It's giving a voice. It's not letting a terrible woman named Georgia Tann getting in the way. She did that enough. After reading "Before We Were Yours" by Lisa Wingate, it was both heartwarming and sad to read some of the real-life stories of survivors of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. Christie did a great job of formatting her "interviews" with the people into a coherent, readable collection without seeming like separate segments, bundled together. This book is a "must read" after reading Wingate's novel. The book is a historical read about the scandal of the Tennessee Children's Home Society and Georgia Tann. This establishment practiced human trafficking through illegal adoptions. Babies were stolen from hospitals and families using many methods, adoption rings, falsified documents, and others. The "adoptees" in the book discuss their experiences with the adoption ring and Georgia Tann. Now in their 70's and 80's, they are hoping to find family that they had been taken from, some of their family members that they never even knew they existed. It was a very somber read, but a wonderful interpretation of the story that shook Memphis. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal??some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate??s bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children??s Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents??hiding the fact that many weren??t orphans at all, but stolen sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died. The publication of Lisa Wingate??s novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann??s lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who documented the stories of fifteen adoptees in this book, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots and find their birth families. Before and After includes moving and sometimes shocking accounts of the ways in which adoptees were separated from their first families. Often raised as only children, many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final decades of their lives. Christie and Wingate tell of first meetings that are all the sweeter and more intense for time missed and of families from very different social backgrounds reaching out to embrace better-late-than-never brothers, sisters, and cousins. In a poignant culmination of art meeting life, many of the long-silent victims of the tragically corrupt system return to Memphis with the authors to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children??s Home Society reunion . . . with extraordinary results. Advance praise for Before and After ??In Before and After, authors Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate tackle the true stories behind Wingate??s blockbuster Before We Were Yours, of the orphans who survived the Tennessee Children??s Home Society. With a journalist??s keen eye and a novelist??s elegant prose, Christie and Wingate weave together the stories that inspired Before We Were Yours with the lives that were changed as a result of reading the novel. Readers will be educated, enlightened, and enraptured by this important and flawlessly executed book.???Pam Jenoff, author of The Orphan??s Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I listened to the audio and that may have been my downfall. Because there were multiple individual stories to this one, it was more similar to a book of essays or short stories, so (because – audio) when I missed parts, it was hard to “catch up” on what I’d missed before we moved on to the next story. It did seem like many of the adopted kids had good lives, in the end.
There was some talk at the end about one of the reunion attendees not having a great home life post-adoption and that she was heartened to find others out there with a similar story – that is, she wasn’t alone in that. But if those stories were told in this book, I missed them. The entire story (Georgia Tann) is sad, but I suspect I might have liked this more if I’d actually read it. In any case, I’m still rating it ok. ( )