He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. I hope one of the celebrity book clubs pick this because there is just so much to discuss and dissect! I finished the book a couple days ago and I’m still thinking about it. While it’s still early in the year, this is the best book I’ve read so far and I know it will be on all the top lists by the end of 2021. It’s one of those books that you know will leave a lasting impression. Thank you for supporting our publishing ministry.When I put together my must-read book club picks for 2021 list, I knew I had to include The Kindest Lie.
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But the action really takes place a few miles away in Ganton, a town that seems light-years away from Ruth’s middle-class lifestyle in the big city. She lives in Chicago against the backdrop of the nation electing its first Black president. With every year that passed, it became easier to put more distance between her old life and her new one.”Īs a successful engineer, Ruth is the pride of her family. She’s the inspiration for the title, which is unveiled early in the first page of the book: “A lie could be kind to you if you wanted it to be, if you let it. But the story becomes more complex as the main character, Ruth Tuttle, deals with a critical secret she left behind when she left her grandparents’ home in the fictional Ganton, Indiana, to attend Yale University. The story’s heroes seem to be the Black family. The narrative delves deeply into the inner lives of two sets of grandparents who raise their grandchildren, immersing readers in their struggle to address educational gaps, sacrifices, work ethics, pain, and loss.
The Kindest Lie is a tale of race in small-town America, but it is neither trite nor predictable. In a time when race weighs heavily on our minds and emotions, Nancy Johnson’s debut novel offers a refreshing look at two families in a factory town in Indiana-one Black, one White-whose lives are intertwined, with similarities and differences.
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