Library Book club meeting March 21

The Hot Springs County Library Book Club will be meeting on Thursday, March . 21 at 7 p.m. The book they will be discussing is Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate.

Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shanty boat. 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’s Home Society orphanage.

Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—this is a riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale.