Before We Were Yours
Ranked #1 in Tennessee, Ranked #2 in Adoption — see more rankings.
For readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a "thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal."*
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the... more
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the... more
Rankings by Category
Before We Were Yours is ranked in the following categories:
- #21 in 2017
- #82 in AA
- #37 in Abduction
- #21 in Alzheimer's
- #71 in Audible
- #93 in Audio
- #82 in Awarded
- #17 in Book Club
- #15 in Copenhagen
- #69 in Corruption
- #86 in Crime Fiction
- #50 in Family
- #64 in Fiction Crime
- #60 in Goodreads
- #20 in Historical Fiction
- #33 in Kidnapping
- #50 in Mom
- #81 in New York
- #37 in New York Times Bestseller
- #68 in Poverty
- #90 in Rated
- #41 in Secrets
- #18 in Sister
- #37 in South
- #78 in True Story
- #85 in Used
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