The kindest lie: a novel

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Johnson, Nancy (Novelist)
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Needing to reconnect with the baby she gave up for adoption years earlier, an Ivy League-educated Black engineer uncovers devastating family secrets before her bond with a young white misfit scandalizes her racially torn community.

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African American women -- Fiction
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Indiana -- Fiction
Literature
Motherhood
Motherhood -- Fiction
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Race relations
Race relations -- Fiction
Racism
Racism -- Fiction
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Small, Shayna,narrator
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