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Before We Were Yours

Lisa Wingate

Start date: April 1, 2019

Finish date: April 30, 2019

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Feb 14, 2019 Linda Martin rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-fiction, families, crime, fiction, poverty, mysteries, geo-tennessee, child-welfare, aging, 2019

This is one of those audiobooks I wanted not to end, because I loved listening to it so much. The characters became real and important to me, and I liked the readers' voices. The characters had rich backstories. It was beautiful and intriguing to see how their lives were interwoven and dependent on one another.

I don't believe the evil of child snatching has ended with the sad saga of Georgia Tann at the Tennessee Children's Home. I believe it continues on today with corruption within the govern ...more

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Apr 29, 2018 Ren rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, audiobooks, library-book

I enjoyed this one for the most part. There were moments I sort of tuned out, but overall, a pretty good story.

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Apr 16, 2018 Ali rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Disclaimer: I did not finish this book. I do not enjoy reading about child abuse and dare I say torture, even if it did happen and it’s a story that needs to be told. I gave it three stars for the writing.

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May 20, 2019 prima_dawna rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2019, audiobooks

Pretty powerful book. This was a very interesting piece of historical fiction. I was completely unaware of this story. This novel depicts yet more evidence of white privilege and white elitism. I am well aware of white privilege as it extends to people of color but this story was about white privilege as it impacted lower socioeconomic white people. This story was so incredibly sad but the mystery of it kept me on the edge of my seat and kept me up late trying to piece together the story and fin ...more

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