Before We Were Yours
A Novel
by Lisa Wingate
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appears in American History and Fiction.
Memphis, 1939. Twelveyearold Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family?s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge?until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children?...
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