{"product_id":"the-kindest-lie-target-edition-9780063240407b","title":"The Kindest Lie (Target Edition)","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA promise could betray you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’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. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to—and was forced to leave behind—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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReturning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. As she begins digging into the past, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. Just as Ruth is about to uncover a burning secret her family desperately wants to keep hidden, a traumatic incident strains the town’s already searing racial tensions, sending Ruth and Midnight on a collision course that could upend both their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowerful and revealing, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Kindest Lie\u003c\/span\u003e captures the heartbreaking divide between Black and white communities and offers both an unflinching view of motherhood in contemporary America and the never-ending quest to achieve the American Dream.","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42825831809104,"sku":"9780063240407B","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780063240407-l.jpg?v=1785902734","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/the-kindest-lie-target-edition-9780063240407b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}