Thursday Evening Book Club

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone one stormy night in Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. Rill Foss must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society.

Years later, in South Carolina, Avery Stafford has lived a charmed life until a chance encounter with a stranger. Before We Were Yours alternates between the historical story of the Foss Children and the modern-day story of Avery Stafford while exploring adoption and the foster care system.