Cecile
Dowd is the widowed mother of an active three-year-old girl named
Millie. They resided in Memphis, Tennessee in 1933, a time when
cautious parents kept a close watch on their children. The reason?
Children around Memphis and other nearby towns were disappearing, and
it wouldn't be publicly known until years later that this was
happening under the direction of Georgia Tann of the Tennessee
Children's Home Society.
Percy
Vance, a lawyer who came up from a life of poverty, was indebted to
Georgia Tann. He believed that she was saving children from a
childhood like his own, pairing them with loving parents. Only after
meeting Cecile Dowd did he truly begin to doubt Tann's motives and
methods.
Liz
Tolsma, an adoptive mother of three, does a wonderful job of exposing
the atrocities of Tann's exploitation of the adoption process, the
children and the families while reminding readers of the good that
can come from adoption handled by those with everyone's best interest
at heart. She also expertly keeps the reader wondering about the
story's great question. Where is Millie Dowd?
I
am grateful to have received a copy of The Pink Bonnet
from Barbour Publishing in exchange for my honest opinion. I was
under no obligation to provide a positive review, and received no
monetary compensation.
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