num_pages: 336
description: A promise could betray you.Its 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. Hes eager to start a family but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth toand was forced to leave behindwhen she was a teenager. She had promised her family shed 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 towns already searing racial tensions sending Ruth and Midnight on a collision course that could upend both their lives.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. 
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title: The Kindest Lie
publisher: William Morrow