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02776aam a2200349 i 4500 001 CC52AEA8D64311EB91745AA74CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210626010009 007 n 008 200817s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0593156706 020 $a 9780593156704 035 $a (OCoLC)1183968412 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Christie, Judy Pace, $d 1956- 245 1 $a Before and after : $b the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society / $c Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate. 250 $a Ballantine Books Trade Paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Ballantine Books, $c 2021. 300 $a xiv, 296 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "From the 1920s through 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 children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies 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 documented the fifteen family stories in this book, many determined survivors set out to trace their roots and find their families. Often raised by older parents as only children, many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final decades of their lives. Wingate and Christie tell of first meetings that are all the sweeter and more intense for time missed, and of families from very different social backgrounds reaching out to embrace better-late-than-never brothers, sisters, and cousins. In a poignant culmination of art-meets-life, long silent victims of the tragically corrupt system return to Memphis with the authors to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children's Home Society reunion . . . with extraordinary results"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20210521. 610 2 $a Tennessee Children's Home Society $x History. $x History. 650 $a Adoption agencies $x History. $z Tennessee $x History. 650 $a Family reunification $z Tennessee $v Case studies. 655 7 $a Biographies. 655 7 $a True crime stories. 700 $a Wingate, Lisa, $e author. 941 $a 3 952 $l T2PB062 $d 20240430104110.0 $m t2pb062 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230224010607.0 952 $l YGPC162 $d 20210626010823.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CC52AEA8D64311EB91745AA74CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search