Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate, 2017
Two timelines braid a senator’s daughter with a child caught in a real adoption scandal—and the family secrets that still decide who belongs.
Lisa Wingate
Wingate drew on the real Tennessee Children’s Home Society, where Georgia Tann placed children from poor families into adoptive homes.
Feels like family, memory and dread.
A stranger’s grip can feel like a message you haven’t learned to read.
Someone touches my hand and wrist, fingers encircling me so unexpectedly that I jerk away, then stop myself, so as not to cause a scene. The grip is cold and bony and trembling, but surprisingly strong. I turn to see the woman from the garden. She straightens her humped back and gazes up at me through eyes the color of the hydrangeas back home at Drayden Hill—a soft, clear blue with a lighter mist around the edges. Her pleated lips tremble. Books by Lisa Wingate
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