![]() It is a place where Black and white have lived side-by-side but not together for generations because a factory provided jobs enough to give good lives to all. This is a Black family based in a small Indiana town. This is not a telling of a rich family’s attempt at building a dynasty or a woefully dysfunctional family struggling to survive. Johnson breaks the rules for that genre of writing. How can things so diametrically opposed coexist without destroying the people whose lives that they touch? With mystery writer’s skill, Nancy Johnson’s sensitive telling of racial dynamics, sexual liaisons, generational differences and parenting styles intersperse themselves into what seems like a family saga in “The Kindest Lie.” Therefore, how can a lie be the kindest thing? This is what forms the intriguing structure of the book. Lies are, by their nature, used to deceive, to cheat, to hoodwink. ![]()
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