TY - BOOK 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. 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. T1 - The kindest lie :a novel / AU - Johnson, Nancy ET - First edition. CN - PS3610.O3668 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 SN - 9780063005631 SN - 0063005638 SN - 9780063117440 SN - 0063117444 TI - The kindest lie :a novel / ER -