He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. It’s 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. This book makes a strong argument for confronting our past with courage and generosity so we might be able to forge ahead and build bonds that can weather the challenges of work, family, and romance. I appreciate its care towards its characters and the attention Johnson pays to the weight of a history that is shared but not equally.
It masterfully captures the ways that lies-big and small, national and personal-can come to haunt us. Rare is the book that can speak equally effectively to the truths in our hearts as the issues roiling our national political conversations. This implosion sends Ruth back to her hometown in search of her lost child and answers to the many mysteries of her family’s past. But as her husband’s excitement over trying to start a family grows, Ruth’s long-held secret-that she had a baby in high school that she abandoned-begins to eat away at her. Ruth Tuttle is a successful chemical engineer with an amazing husband she loves dearly, seemingly well on her way to claiming a part of the American Dream. presidential election, Nancy Johnson does just that and introduces an indelible, multigenerational cast of characters wrestling within a nation on the cusp of change but marked by the sins of its past. In this sparkling debut that opens on the eve of the 2008 U.S.
Some of my favorite books are those that explore what happens when the past reasserts itself and makes a claim on the present.
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