All Over the Page - Before We Were Yours

This month we will be discussing, Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. The discussion will be facilitated by Jennie Mezick. 

"Memphis, Tennessee, 1939. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, 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. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived a charmed life. Loving daughter to her father, a U.S. Senator, she has a promising career as an assistant D.A. in Baltimore and is engaged to her best friend. But when Avery comes home to help her father weather a health crisis and a political attack, a chance encounter with a stranger leaves her deeply shaken. Avery's decision to learn more about the woman's life will take her on a journey through her family's long-hidden history"--

Jennie is a Knoxville native with an MA in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management and an MS in Information Sciences. She is a librarian at the University of Tennessee. In her spare time, Jennie enjoys reading, hiking, and adventuring with her husband, kids, and dog.