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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Before we were yours
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Wingate, Lisa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Domestic fiction.
  genre: Fiction.
  genre: Historical fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 342 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents--but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility's cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family's long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption. Based on one of America's most notorious real-life scandals--in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country--Lisa Wingate's riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong."--
  note: Lisa Wingate.
  subject:
    topic: Brothers and sisters
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Orphanages
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Historical
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Contemporary Women
  subject:
    topic: Brothers and sisters
  subject:
    topic: Orphanages
  subject:
    topic: Families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Brothers and sisters
    topic: Fiction
  classification: PS3573.I53165 B44 2017
  classification: 813/.6
  classification: FIC014000 FIC019000 FIC044000
  identifier: 9780425284681
  identifier: 0425284689
  identifier: 9780425284698
  identifier: 2017009998
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170320
    record change date: 20170619145821.0
    record identifier: in00003870398
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng