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Before and After de Judy Christie

Before and After

Autor Judy Christie, Lisa Wingate
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2021

Considerăm că acest volum completează o lacună esențială în literatura dedicată istoriei sociale americane, oferind vocea autentică a victimelor acolo unde documentele oficiale au fost mult timp falsificate sau distruse. În timp ce istoria academică a tratat adesea fenomenul Tennessee Children's Home Society prin prisma statisticilor sau a corupției politice, Before and After umanizează tragedia prin mărturii directe ale celor care au supraviețuit sistemului de piață neagră condus de Georgia Tann. Această lucrare acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Babies for Sale, însă se distinge printr-o abordare mult mai personală și reparatorie. Dacă alte titluri se concentrează pe mecanismele juridice ale scandalului, volumul semnat de Lisa Wingate și Judy Christie pune accent pe procesul de regăsire și pe impactul psihologic al descoperirii adevărului după decenii de tăcere. Structura narativă împletește rigoarea jurnalistică a lui Christie cu sensibilitatea empatică a lui Wingate, rezultând o cronică a rezilienței umane. În contextul operei lui Lisa Wingate, această carte reprezintă puntea necesară între ficțiune și realitate. Dacă în The Book of Lost Friends autoarea explora tema familiilor separate în context istoric prin intermediul narațiunii, aici ea revine la faptele brute care au inspirat bestsellerul Before We Were Yours. Recomandăm acest volum nu doar ca pe o piesă de non-ficțiune istorică, ci ca pe un document social despre puterea adevărului de a vindeca traume generaționale, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care arta poate influența direct destinele cititorilor săi.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780593156704
ISBN-10: 0593156706
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Random House

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria socială și de impactul profund al jurnalismului de investigație. Este un volum esențial pentru a înțelege amploarea scandalului Tennessee Children's Home Society, oferind detalii despre modul în care mii de familii au fost destrămate. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra procesului de căutare a rădăcinilor biologice și a puterii de a reconstrui o identitate furată.

Despre autor

Lisa Wingate este o fostă jurnalistă și autoare de succes, distinsă cu numeroase premii, printre care Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize și Carol Award. Cunoscută pentru capacitatea de a aduce la lumină episoade uitate ale istoriei americane, Wingate a devenit o voce de referință în literatura contemporană. Judy Christie, co-autoarea volumului, este o jurnalistă premiată și fost editor la publicații cotidiene importante din Tennessee și Louisiana. Expertiza sa în documentarea faptelor completează stilul narativ al lui Wingate, cele două colaborând pentru a oferi o imagine completă și riguroasă asupra unuia dintre cele mai mari scandaluri de trafic de copii din Statele Unite.

Descriere scurtă

The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal--some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate's bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach From the 1920s to 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 sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann's lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who documented the stories of fifteen adoptees in this book, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots and find their birth families. Before and After includes moving and sometimes shocking accounts of the ways in which adoptees were separated from their first families. Often raised as only children, many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final decades of their lives. Christie and Wingate 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 meeting life, many of the 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. Advance praise for Before and After "In Before and After, authors Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate tackle the true stories behind Wingate's blockbuster Before We Were Yours, of the orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society. With a journalist's keen eye and a novelist's elegant prose, Christie and Wingate weave together the stories that inspired Before We Were Yours with the lives that were changed as a result of reading the novel. Readers will be educated, enlightened, and enraptured by this important and flawlessly executed book."--Pam Jenoff, author of The Orphan's Tale and The Lost Girls of Paris

Notă biografică

Judy Christie is an award-winning journalist and the author of eighteen books of both fiction and nonfiction. A former editor at daily newspapers in Tennessee, Louisiana, Florida, and Indiana, she holds a master’s degree in literature from Louisiana State University in Shreveport. She and her husband live in rural Colorado.

Lisa Wingate is a former journalist, an inspirational speaker, and the author of numerous novels, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours, which has sold more than 2.2 million copies. The co-author, with Judy Christie, of the nonfiction book, Before and After, Wingate is a two-time ACFW Carol Award winner, a Christy Award nominee, an Oklahoma Book Award finalist, and a Southern Book Prize winner. She lives with her husband in North Texas.

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The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were Yours

From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a corrupt 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 sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died.

In Before and After, many survivors set out to trace their roots and find their birth families. Before and AFter includes moving and shocking accounts of the ways in which adoptees were separated from their first families. Often raised as only children, many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final decades of their lives. There are stories 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 brothers, sisters, and cousins.

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT BEFORE AND AFTER

'What a truly amazing book' *****

'Riveting' *****

'Captivating and emotional' *****

'A real tear-jerker' *****

Recenzii

'An uplifting exploration of what family truly means'