TY  - BOOK
AB  - "It's 2008, and the rise of 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. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, 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. Determined, Ruth begins digging into the past. As she uncovers burning secrets her family desperately wants to hide, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. When a traumatic incident strains the town's already searing racial tensions, Ruth and Midnight find themselves on a collision course that could upend both their lives."--Publisher.
AU  - Johnson, Nancy
CN  - PS3610.O3668
ET  - First edition.
ID  - 1469287
KW  - African American women
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Racism against Black people
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Race relations - Fiction.
KW  - Noires américaines
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Secrets de famille
KW  - Maternité
KW  - FICTION / African American / Women.
KW  - FICTION / Literary.
KW  - FICTION / Family Life / General.
KW  - African American women.
KW  - Family secrets.
KW  - Motherhood.
KW  - Race relations.
KW  - Racism against Black people.
KW  - African American women
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Racism
KW  - Mothers
N2  - "It's 2008, and the rise of 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. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, 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. Determined, Ruth begins digging into the past. As she uncovers burning secrets her family desperately wants to hide, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. When a traumatic incident strains the town's already searing racial tensions, Ruth and Midnight find themselves on a collision course that could upend both their lives."--Publisher.
SN  - 9780063005631
SN  - 0063005638
SN  - 9780063117440
SN  - 0063117444
T1  - The kindest lie :a novel /
TI  - The kindest lie :a novel /
ER  -