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She snoops around May’s possession and finds a picture of someone looking strikingly like Judy. Avery is fascinated by May and wants to know more about her, so she goes to the nursing home.

While at home, she gets a call from the nursing home informing her they found a bracelet in May’s possession that may belong to her.

Back at the nursing event, an old woman called May Crandall sneaks up to her, calls her Fern, and makes away with her dragonfly bracelet which belongs to Judy – her grandmother.

Avery notices that Judy her grandmother, who is staying at a nursing home, is increasingly growing senile and consistently mutters about a family secret.

She leaves work and Elliot – her fiancé – behind and has come home to spend time with her father who is sick, to replace him at the US senate-house if the sickness persists.

In the present day, Avery attends a nursing event with her father, Senator Wells.

Following the sad event, the doctor consoles her father – who is representing her husband who’s out of town – and tells him he knows of a woman in Memphis who has a solution.

The book begins with a flashback to Baltimore Maryland, in 1939, as Rill Foss retells the sad story of a wealthy woman who delivers a stillborn.

While some stuck to honorable means of making a living, others took recourse to drastic, unethical paths.

There was mass unemployment and people were pushed to the edge. After the event of The Great Depression came sweeping poverty that affected millions of Americans.

Georgia Tann and caliber for beyond human dignity to make money, but they didn’t operate alone as they had the assistance of some law enforcement personnel when the business of illegally moving the children was booming.īeing the precedence to the central theme of child trafficking, economic hardship is the reason people like the character of Georgia Tann take recourse to illegal activities involving children. Lisa Wingate’s ‘ Before We Were Yours’ exposes the excesses of not only individuals but also those of the government and authorities. Although mostly captured in flashbacks of more than fifty years ago, this theme doesn’t stay buried in the past as it keeps on hunting the victims and their loved ones into the present and throughout the pages of the book. Some of the themes here are touching, and we’ll take a look at the best ones as captured by Lisa Wingate.īefore We Were Yours Themes Child Trafficking and AbuseĪ truly sad, heartbreaking theme and the reason why readers have a book to read in Lisa Wingate’s ‘ Before We Were Yours’. Lisa Wingate’s historical epic ‘ Before We Were Yours’ serves, to the reader, as an eye-opener for the many atrocities carried out by Georgia Tann (and her like), who’s probably the biggest child trafficker in America’s history.