“Before We Were Yours”

A Book Review

In this poignant novel, inspired by a true story two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice.

Lisa Wingate’s depiction of the lives of the five Foss children was straightforward. In 1939 Queenie and Briny, poor but loving parents, and their five children lived in a shanty boat on the Mississippi River. Rill was a skinny awkward…