Review: BEFORE WE WERE YOURS

Historical/contemporary fiction that will tear at your heart, BEFORE WE WERE YOURS is sadly grounded in historical accuracy. Like Colson Whitehead's THE NICKEL BOYS, an ugly historical era is here the basis for a moving story of trauma and success, of the true core strength at the heart of Family, and of the lengths to which some individuals are compelled to satisfy cupidity, greed, and lust for power and control when the end is seen to justify the means. Suffused with imagery the reader wants to pause to savor, this is a frighteningly realistic work of historical literary fiction.