NYT Bestselling Author Lisa Wingate wrote Before We Were Yours, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies and just came out in paperback last week. Two years ago, when author Judy Christie read an early copy of that novel, she felt it was one of the best books I’d read in a long time – in part because it was inspired by a piece of little-known and gripping Southern history and Lisa had written such a compelling fictionalized account.

In Before and After (due from Ballantine Books on Oct 22, 2019) Lisa and Judy write of first family 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. In a culmination of art-meets-life, long silent victims of the corrupt system returned to Memphis with Lisa and Judy to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children’s Home Society reunion…with what were startling and emotional results. The book is available for pre-order from your favorite booksellers, including at Amazon and Barnes & Noble Booksellers.

Before and After makes a great companion book to Before We Were Yours One Book One Community selections – and it’s a powerful book for stand alone events as well! Both Lisa and Judy are available for speaking engagements – and if you’d like to explore further, be in touch with us today!