TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wingate,Lisa
TI  - Before we were yours: a novel 
SN  - 9780425284681
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Brothers and sisters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Orphanages
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - "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"--
ER  -