BLUE - Random House Publishing Group
Single
List
Tile
-
Other Formats
9780593156704 9780593164358 Downloadable audio file 9780593130155 Electronic book text, EPUB -
Supply Detail
Distributor: Random House, Inc. Availability: On Sale Date: Oct 22, 2019 Carton Quantity: 12 $35.00 CAD
$26.00 USD
-
Catalogues
Before and After
The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
By (author):
Judy Christie
By (author):
Lisa Wingate
9780593130148
Hardcover
English
General Trade
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering
Oct 22, 2019
$35.00 CAD
Forthcoming 5.5 x 8.25 in 320 pages 34 B&W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT Ballantine Ballantine Books
Forthcoming 5.5 x 8.25 in 320 pages 34 B&W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT Ballantine Ballantine Books
- Description
- Author Bio
- Reviews
The incredible, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal—some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate’s bestselling novel Before We Were Yours, and were reunited with birth family members as a result of the novel’s wide reach.
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.
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.
FANS ARE BEGGING FOR THIS BOOK: At every event, readers ask Wingate where they can learn more about real-life victims of Georgia Tann, how their lives played out in their new homes, and how they found their birth families.
BEFORE WE WERE YOURS WAS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOR 54 WEEKS in hardcover and HIT #1 IN PAPERBACK. It hit #7 on USA Today bestseller list. Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestseller. The third-longest-running bestseller of 2017, behind only A Gentleman in Moscow and Underground Railroad.
BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS THROUGHOUT, including letters and documents from Tann’s agency, newspaper ads showing babies as ideal holiday gifts, and poignant photographs of young adoptees and reunited siblings.
A SHORT VIDEO OF THE FIRST-EVER REUNION OF GEORGIA TANN ADOPTEES can be viewed at bit.ly/2URmsg2
Marketing: Pre-pub consumer outreach and reviews
National advertising campaign
Online marketing
Mobile advertising
Targeted email marketing
Random House e-newsletters and websites
Major book club outreach
Advance reader’s edition
Extra content available to booksellers
Reading group guide online
Author video
Library and Academic outreach
Author Website: lisawingate.com; judychristie.com
Author Social Media: F: @LisaWingateAuthorPage, @JudyChristieAuthor; T: @LisaWingate; IG: @author_lisa-wingate
National advertising campaign
Online marketing
Mobile advertising
Targeted email marketing
Random House e-newsletters and websites
Major book club outreach
Advance reader’s edition
Extra content available to booksellers
Reading group guide online
Author video
Library and Academic outreach
Author Website: lisawingate.com; judychristie.com
Author Social Media: F: @LisaWingateAuthorPage, @JudyChristieAuthor; T: @LisaWingate; IG: @author_lisa-wingate
Advance praise for Before and After
“In Before and After, authors Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate tackle the true stories behind Wingate’s blockbuster Before We Were Yours, of the orphans who survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society. With a journalist’s keen eye and a novelist’s elegant prose, Christie and Wingate weave together the stories that inspired Before We Were Yours with the lives that were changed as a result of reading the novel. Readers will be educated, enlightened, and enraptured by this important and flawlessly executed book.”
—Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan’s Tale and The Lost Girls of Paris
“Lisa Wingate’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel Before We Were Yours brought worldwide attention to a shocking scandal of lost and stolen children. What she couldn’t know was that her novel would also become the catalyst for survivors, now in old age, to share their stories. Before and After, while at times a very sad and shocking read, is ultimately a collection of astonishing real-life stories of strength, hope, and resilience in the face of the cruelest circumstances. If you read Before We Were Yours, you will devour Before and After.”
—Amy Hill Hearth, New York Times bestselling author of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years
