Books Details
Author : Judy Christie Pages : pages Publisher : Random House Audio Language
: eng ISBN-10 : B07RMB19BW ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
7 hours, 57 minutesThe incredible, 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 members as a result of its wide reachFrom the 1920s to 1950, Georgia
Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home
Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the
wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but
stolen sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and
women told in maternity wards that their babies had died.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 award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who
