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Barcode30293101883895
LocationClark County
Call NoF John
TitleThe kindest lie : a novel / Nancy Johnson.
AuthorJohnson, Nancy (Novelist) author.
CollectionF
Total Circ1
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293101883895F John2/17/2021 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780063005631 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0063005638 (hardcover)
Personal Name Johnson, Nancy (Novelist) author.
Title Statement The kindest lie : a novel / Nancy Johnson.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.
Physical Description 326 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary, Etc. 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.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Race relations Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Family secrets Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Racism Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American women Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Motherhood Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Indiana Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Social problem fiction.

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