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Individual Author Record

General Information

Name:  Nancy Johnson  

Pen Name: 

Genre: Fiction

Audience: Adult;

Born:

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Illinois Connection

Johnson is a Native of Chicago's South Side.

Biographical and Professional Information

Johnson worked for more than a decade as an Emmy-nominated, award-winning television journalist at CBS and ABC affiliates nationwide. A graduate of Northwestern University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she lives in downtown Chicago and manages brand communications for a large nonprofit. The Kindest Lie is her first book.

Awards

The Kindest Lie , Library Reads Pick, Book of the Month Club Pick, Indie Next Pick, Amazon Best of the Month Pick

Speaking Engagements

Speaking Engagement Availability: No.

Selected Titles At Your Library

The Kindest Lie
ISBN: 0063005638. OCLC Number: 1151103899

Morrow. .

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.--Publisher.