Bibliograph

Before and after, the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate

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Before and after, the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Before and after

Nature of contents

abstracts summaries

Oclc number

1148416162

Responsibility statement

Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print nonfiction

Sub title

the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

Summary

From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. 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 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. Here many victims return to Memphis with the authors to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children's Home Society reunion ... with extraordinary results

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