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Heartbreaking. Before We Were Yours falls smack dab in the middle of my favorite category: historical fiction that flashes back and forth with the "now" story. Since you know the "now," you know that everything turns out ok, but getting there is pretty painful in this case.
12-year-old Rill Foss thinks her life is pretty perfect and then on the night her mother is about to give birth to twins, she ends up in charge of four younger siblings and so very alone. The intriguing part of the "flash forwards" is that everyone's names are changed... so I was unsure of who was who. Rill tries valiantly to save and protect all those kids from the evil adults in their lives. I can't tell you if she is successful or not.
Makes me think how vulnerable children are.... and they don't even know it. Luckily, they are also resilient.
Listen to an interview with the author HERE. (It's kinda long....)
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