Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society Audiobook (Free)

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 as a result of its wide reach

From your 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business on the Tennessee Children’s Home Culture in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the desire lists of keen parents-hiding the fact that lots of weren’t orphans at about Before and After: The Amazing Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society all, but stolen sons and daughters of poor family members, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their infants had died.

The publication of Lisa Wingate’s novel Before We Were Yours brought fresh knowing of Tann’s lucrative career in kid trafficking. Adoptees who understood little about their pasts obtained insight in to the startling information behind their family members histories. Motivated by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who noted the tales of fifteen adoptees in this reserve, many driven Tann survivors attempt to track their roots and discover their birth families.

Before and After contains moving and occasionally shocking accounts from the ways in which adoptees were separated off their initial families. Often elevated as only kids, many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final years of their lives. Christie and Wingate describe initial meetings that are the sweeter and even more intense for time missed and of households from completely different interpersonal backgrounds reaching out to accept better-late-than-never brothers, sisters, and cousins. Within a poignant culmination of artwork meeting life, lots of the long-silent victims of the tragically corrupt program go back to Memphis using the writers to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children’s House Culture reunion . with remarkable results.

Advance praise for Before and After

“In Before and After, writers 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 House Society. With a journalist’s willing attention and a novelist’s elegant prose, Christie and Wingate weave jointly the tales that inspired Before We Were Yours with the lives that were changed due to reading the novel. Readers will become educated, enlightened, and enraptured by this essential and flawlessly performed reserve.”-Pam Jenoff, writer of The Orphan’s Tale and The Lost Young ladies of Paris