Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and his four younger sisters live a magical life on their family Mississippi River slum. But when their father had to drive their mother to the hospital on a stormy night, Rill was left in charge until the stranger arrived. Neglected from all the usual stuff and thrown into the Children's Home at Tennessee Children's Home, the Foss kids are confident that they will soon be returned to their parents but they soon realize the real truth. At the mercy of the cruel director of the facility, Rill struggles to keep his brothers and siblings together in a world full of danger and uncertainty.
Aiken, South Carolina, today. Born in wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all. a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancee, and a fancy wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help his father overcome the health crisis, an opportunity to meet his wife makes an uncomfortable question and forces him to travel through his family's hidden history, in a way that will eventually lead to destruction or redemption.
Based on one of America's most famous real-life scandals in which Georgia Tann, director of the Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnaps and sells poor children to rich families across the country, Lisa Wingate's mesmerizing, heartbreaking story and finally reminiscent of how, Although the way we travel can go to many places, the heart never forget where we are.Georgia Tann and the Memphis Children's Home Society really exist, exposing the lives of countless children, stealing the past and changing their future. how deeply Wingate plunges us into the hearts and minds of the twelve-year-old gypsy eldest son, Rill Foss. Rill's weird single voice will live with you.
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