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NANCY JOHNSON – Author of The Kindest Lie. Target Book Club Pick! Buy the Paperback Now! For fans of Tayari Jones and Jacqueline Woodson, a searing, thought-provoking page-turner about race, class, identity, and the pursuit of the American dream.
Feb 5, 2021 · Nancy Johnson's debut novel, "The Kindest Lie," follow a Chicago woman back to the dying small Indiana town where she left her son — and her roots.
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Feb 2, 2021 · “Essential, powerful, wrenching: Nancy Johnson’s debut novel tells a history of family secrets and lies shaped by the racism that permeates modern America.... A riveting story, a searing lesson on why Black Lives Matter is today’s crucial social justice movement.”
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Nancy Johnson. Award-winning journalist explores class, race and the “lie” of the American dream in her debut novel, The Kindest Lie. Nancy Johnson ’93 worked for more than a decade as an award-winning television reporter for CBS and ABC affiliates before moving into corporate communications and public relations.
Jan 26, 2021 · Nancy Johnson on exploring class, race, and motherhood in debut novel The Kindest Lie. In the Obama era-set book, Black engineer Ruth and a white child living in her hometown change each...
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Feb 2, 2021 · Essential, powerful, wrenching: Nancy Johnson’s debut novel tells a history of family secrets and lies shaped by the racism that permeates modern America.... A riveting story, a searing lesson on why Black Lives Matter is today’s crucial social justice movement.
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A native of Chicago’s South Side, Nancy Johnson worked for more than a decade as an Emmy-nominated, award-winning television journalist at CBS and ABC affiliates in markets nationwide. Her debut novel, The Kindest Lie, has been reviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, and is featured on Entertainment Weekly ...
Feb 2, 2021 · Nancy Johnson. A promise could betray you. 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.
Capturing the profound racial injustices and class inequalities roiling society, Nancy Johnson’s debut novel offers an unflinching view of motherhood in contemporary America and the never-ending quest to achieve the American Dream.
