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Wow--since when have I given five stars to a bestseller? In this instance, the book's popularity is well placed. It's not an easy story to read, but it's so well-written and the characters so compelling that it helps with the extremely tragic subject matter. (Especially the Camellia part) Rill is a wonderful big sister and it was easy to identify with her heartbreak as she loses her family one by one. Avery is a modern young woman, trying to find her own destiny in the midst of her family's stri
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The third time was the charm for me with this book. When I first started it, I thought it was very depressing. The book relies on two time periods with fictional characters to portray events of an actual adoption agency which operated from the 1920's to 1950 in Tennessee. One of the main characters, Rill, a young adolescent, was put in very dire circumstances along with her brother and sisters, and I was afraid she would never find her way to a happier outcome. So I read with trepidation and at
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I have to saw I’m surprised by how this book received such a high rating. It’s the story of a “orphanage” in Tennessee; however, the children are not orphans, but have rather been stolen from their parents (often river gypsies) or their parents have signed them over to the care of the women who run the house. The women then place these children in the homes of their wealthy clients at an exorbitant price. This book goes back and for between the present time and the 1930s. The story in the presen
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Excellent story based on true events regarding adoptions.
I don't know why I was dragging my feet so much about reading it-the cover just didn't draw me in so this kept getting put at the bottom of my pile. I'm glad I finally picked it up. This was a well-written, emotional story made even more heartbreaking because it was based on the true-life criminal child broker. The fact that this "orphanage" existed, the tactics used to get the children, and their treatment once they got there was just horrifying. I found it quite ironic that Georgia Tann, the d
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