#33 The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson It’s 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. He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to—and was forced to leave behind—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.
This book had a lot of potential - a woman overcoming lots of obstacles - poverty, teen pregnancy, racism, I wanted to like it. The book focused on a Ruth, 30 year old black woman and MIdnight, a 12 year old white boy. I didn't like either of them. After 12 years of ignoring that she'd given birth, suddenly Ruth is hell bent to claim her son, regardless of any consequences to him. I don't recommend this book.
