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A review by rosedaug
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
4.0
Set in 2008 right after Obama’s election, “The Kindest Lie” follows young couple Ruth and Xavier living in Chicago. Ruth has entirely left her life in her small Indiana town behind, including a major secret she kept about a baby she gave birth to in 1997 when she was only 17 years old. As she navigates her and her husbands decisions about starting a family, she attempts to revisit her small town to find some answers.
I really liked this book. There were a LOT of emotions I felt with it; books about motherhood are especially sensitive topics for me. As an adoptive mom, reading a story from the perspective of a birth mom who was forced to give up her rights at birth was so far disconnected from my experience but a valuable one for me to read from. I feel like I wanted to give this book a 5, maybe it’s a 4.5. The ending is decently happy and had some form of closure.
I really liked this book. There were a LOT of emotions I felt with it; books about motherhood are especially sensitive topics for me. As an adoptive mom, reading a story from the perspective of a birth mom who was forced to give up her rights at birth was so far disconnected from my experience but a valuable one for me to read from. I feel like I wanted to give this book a 5, maybe it’s a 4.5. The ending is decently happy and had some form of closure.