02163cam a2200361 i 4500 27005 27005 1110886872 OCoLC 20200122140450.0 190814s2019 nyu 000 0 eng 2019034565 9780593130148 (OCoLC)1110886872 (OCoLC)1091845647 DLC eng rda DLC YDX BDX CNWPU OCLCO OCLCF pcc n-us-tn M9YA HV875.56.T2 C47 2019 362.73092/2768 23 Christie, Judy Pace, 1956- author. 4409 Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society / Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, [2019] xiv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. text txt rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. 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. 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. Tennessee Children's Home Society Corrupt practices History. 4410 Adoption agencies Corrupt practices Tennessee History. 4411 Family reunification Tennessee Case studies. 4412 Wingate, Lisa, author. 1690 ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2020-01-22 26.00 6 362.73 CHRI 49408 2020-09-23 2020-03-03 2020-01-22 BOOK