Download [PDF/EBOOK] “The Kindest Lie: A Novel” by Nancy Johnson
— A fantastic story…well-written, timely, and oh-so-memorable
Read EBOOK/PDF/KINDLE “https://bit.ly/3qrqHih” The Kindest Lie: A Novel by Nancy Johnson — A promise could betray you.
It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man.
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He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to — and was forced to leave behind — when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she’d never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past.
Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. As she begins digging into the past, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. Just as Ruth is about to uncover a burning secret her family desperately wants to keep hidden, a traumatic incident strains the town’s already searing racial tensions, sending Ruth and Midnight on a collision course that could upend both their lives.
Book Details
- Publisher : William Morrow (February 2, 2021)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 336 pages
Powerful and revealing, The Kindest Lie captures the heartbreaking divide between Black and white communities and offers both an unflinching view of motherhood in contemporary America and the never-ending quest to achieve the American Dream. I was impressed this debut novel managed to cover so many topics including race, social class, and motherhood to name a few. What is unique about this story is each reader might walk away with a different aspect that made the most impact. This is a book I found myself thinking about days after I finished reading it. I love when a story makes a deep impression on you.
In 2008, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy League educated Black engineer is living in Chicago with her husband. He wants to start a family but Ruth knows she is going to have to drop a bombshell on him first. She had never told him when she was a teenager she gave birth and the baby was put up for adoption. Ruth went on to escape her poverty-stricken town, attend college, and start a career. But now she wants to revisit her past and in the process she might uncover a family secret or two. Along the way she will meet a young white boy with the nickname, Midnight.
