Book Review: Before and After
By: Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate
I know I've been on a historical book binge. This is another Tennessee Children's Society based book. Unlike the others I have read and shared about this one is based on true stories. Trust me the last few books have been heart wrenching but this one was even more. Maybe it was actually reading each story from all the perspectives and knowing they are true stories... maybe it was the raw emotion of the writer as she records each person's emotional battle as they decide to seek out family or look for stolen loved ones. Maybe it's the gratitude for the adoptive parents and all they gave after seeing where they came from. My heart was all over the place.
This book takes you on the journey from the release of Lisa Wingate's Book Before We Were Yours (get your copy HERE) to the reunion of TCS children and Families. Along the journey you meet several children who ended up in TCS care. Your learn where they came from, how they were placed into TCS, The family they are adopted by and how much was spent. You follow them to the TCS reunion and then learn as they learn what became of siblings, parents and other family members. In the end you discover what they decide to do with the knowledge of being a TCS child and the family history they discover.
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