A review by mhoffrob
Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society by Judy Christie, Lisa Wingate

3.0

I was unsure if a non-fiction investigation of real-life adoptees from the Tennesee Children's Home Society would pack the same punch as "Before We Were Yours" by Lisa Wingate. This book lives up to the novel, and provides an interesting insight into the lives of children, now adults, who were victims of Georgia Tann and the TCHS adoption system which flourished in the 1940s. Here, Wingate and Judy Christie tell some of the stories of the children and families affected by Tann's corrupt system, and relate the efforts to reunite long lost siblings, cousins, and the whole group for a massive reunion in Memphis.